1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
16 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
34 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
35 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
36 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
39 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
40 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
41 by adding a relase action in that path.
43 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
44 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
45 dynamically-created buffers.
47 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
48 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
49 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
50 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
52 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
53 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
54 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
55 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
57 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
58 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
59 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
61 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
62 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
63 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
64 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
66 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
67 excluded, not matching the documentation.
69 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
70 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
72 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
73 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
74 this was a coding error.
76 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
77 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
78 spent suspended, ignoring the Posix definition. Previously we assumed
79 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
80 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
81 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
82 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
84 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
85 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
86 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignement. Discovery and fix by
87 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
89 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
90 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
91 dynamicaly created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
92 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
93 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
95 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
96 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
99 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
100 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
101 domain-parking registrar.
103 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
104 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
105 after removing the newline.
107 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
108 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
109 option set, which was previously used.
111 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
114 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
115 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
116 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
117 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
119 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
120 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
121 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
122 exim.dev.20160529.3).
124 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
125 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
126 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
128 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
129 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
130 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
133 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
134 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
135 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
137 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
138 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
139 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
140 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
143 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
144 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
145 there, handle PRX and TFO.
147 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
148 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
149 in a panic-log trigerrable by sending a message with a long address in
150 a header. Fix by increaing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
151 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
153 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
154 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
155 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
156 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
159 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
160 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
162 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
165 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
166 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
167 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
168 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
169 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
171 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
173 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
174 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
175 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
176 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
177 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
178 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
180 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
181 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
183 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
184 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
185 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentidcation.
187 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
188 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
191 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
192 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
193 of a new variable: $auth4.
195 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
196 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
197 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
198 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
199 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
201 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
202 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
203 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
204 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
206 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
207 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
208 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
210 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
211 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
212 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
213 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
216 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
217 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
218 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
221 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
222 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
223 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
224 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
226 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
227 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
229 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
230 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
231 looked as if if might be one.
233 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
234 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
235 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
236 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
237 messages can show the proxy information.
239 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
240 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
241 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
242 "queue_time_exclusive".
244 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
245 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover epxansions
246 rerulting in acl names and inline ACL content.
248 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
249 making it unusable in complex expressions.
251 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
252 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
255 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
257 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
259 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
261 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
262 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
263 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
264 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
266 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
267 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
269 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
270 better. Reported by Qualys.
272 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
273 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
276 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
278 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
281 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
287 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
288 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
289 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
291 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
293 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
294 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
297 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
298 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
299 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
301 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
303 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
305 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
306 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
307 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
309 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
310 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
311 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
313 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
314 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
316 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
317 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
320 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
321 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
322 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
323 should both provide the file and set the option.
324 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
326 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
327 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
329 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
330 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
331 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
332 Authentication-Results: header.
334 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
335 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
336 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
337 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
339 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
340 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
341 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
342 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
343 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
344 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
345 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
347 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
348 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
349 copies while it is still usable.
351 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
352 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
353 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
355 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
356 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
358 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
359 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
360 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
361 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
363 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
364 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
365 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
368 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
369 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
370 - the pipe transport command
371 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
372 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
374 - paths used by single-key lookups
375 Previously this was permitted.
377 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
378 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
379 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
380 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
382 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
383 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
384 support larger malloc requests.
386 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
387 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
388 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
389 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
391 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
392 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
393 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
394 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
397 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
398 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
399 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
400 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
401 data being length-specified.
403 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
404 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
405 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
406 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
408 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
409 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
410 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
411 not being properly tracked.
413 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
414 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
415 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
416 minute could be seen.
418 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
419 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
420 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
422 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
423 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
425 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
426 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
429 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
431 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
432 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
434 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
435 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
436 filesystem as sufficient validation.
438 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
439 argument is supplied.
441 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
442 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
443 access under Exim's current working directory.
445 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
446 Previously no event was raised.
448 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
449 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
450 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
453 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
454 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
455 the size of the signature hash.
457 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
458 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
460 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
461 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
462 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
463 dropped between messages.
465 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
466 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
467 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
468 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
470 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
471 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
472 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
473 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
474 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
475 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
476 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
477 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
478 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
480 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
481 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
482 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
484 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
485 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
492 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
493 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
495 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
496 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
499 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
502 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
504 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
506 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
507 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
509 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
510 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
511 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
512 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
513 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
514 suitably configured).
516 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
517 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
519 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
520 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
523 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
524 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
526 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
527 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
528 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
529 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
532 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
533 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
534 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
536 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
539 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
540 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
542 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
543 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
544 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
545 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
548 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
549 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
550 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
551 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
554 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
555 shared (NFS) environment.
557 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
558 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
561 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
562 on some platforms for bit 31.
564 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
565 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
566 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
567 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
568 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
569 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
570 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
571 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
573 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
575 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
576 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
578 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
579 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
582 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
583 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
586 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
587 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
588 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
591 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
592 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
593 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
595 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
596 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
597 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
598 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
599 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
601 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
604 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
605 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
606 be requested on all coneections.
608 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
609 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
611 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
613 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
614 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
615 one for these; the option was ignored.
617 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
618 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
619 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
620 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
622 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
623 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
624 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
627 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
628 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
629 error ignored was made.
631 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
633 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
634 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
635 values, to catch one form of exploit.
637 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
638 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
639 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
641 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
642 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
645 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
646 them in our smtp response.
648 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
649 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
650 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
651 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
652 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
654 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
655 link count into consideration.
657 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
658 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
660 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
661 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
662 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
665 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
667 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
669 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
671 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
672 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
673 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
674 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
676 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
678 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
679 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
682 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
683 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
684 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
686 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
687 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
688 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
690 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
691 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
692 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
693 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
694 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
695 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
696 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
697 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
699 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
700 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
701 resulted in an indefinite loop.
703 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
704 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
705 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
711 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
712 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
714 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
715 non-signal-safe functions being used.
717 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
718 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
719 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
721 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
722 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
723 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
725 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
726 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
727 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
728 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
729 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
732 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
733 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
735 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
736 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
737 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
738 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
739 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
740 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
741 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
743 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
744 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
746 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
749 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
750 Previously this would segfault.
752 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
755 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
756 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
757 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
758 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
759 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
760 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
762 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
764 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
765 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
766 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
767 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
769 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
771 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
772 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
773 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
774 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
776 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
778 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
780 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
781 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
782 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
784 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
785 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
786 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
788 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
790 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
791 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
792 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
793 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
795 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
796 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
797 promised '?' replacement.
799 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
801 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
802 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
803 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
804 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
805 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
807 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
808 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
809 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
811 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
812 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
813 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
815 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
816 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
817 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
819 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
820 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
821 hope that is portable enough.
823 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
824 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
825 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
826 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
828 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
829 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
830 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
832 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
833 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
834 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
835 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
837 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
838 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
840 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
841 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
842 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
843 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
845 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
846 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
847 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
849 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
850 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
851 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
852 the previous G, M, k.
854 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
855 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
858 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
859 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
860 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
861 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
863 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
864 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
866 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
867 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
868 off past the nul-terimation.
870 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
871 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
872 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
873 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
874 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
876 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
878 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
879 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
880 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
883 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
884 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
886 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
887 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
888 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
890 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
891 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
892 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
894 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
895 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
901 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
902 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
903 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
904 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
905 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
906 be defined in redis_servers.
908 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
909 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
911 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
912 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
913 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
914 extant use locations.
916 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
917 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
919 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
920 Previously only the last row was returned.
922 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
923 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
924 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
925 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
928 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
929 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
930 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
931 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
932 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
933 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
934 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
935 Main pool for expansions.
936 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
937 active in the testsuite.
938 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
940 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
941 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
942 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
943 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
946 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
947 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
950 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
951 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
952 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
954 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
955 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
956 ClamAV interface method is removed.
958 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
959 rows affected is given instead).
961 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
962 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
964 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
965 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
966 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
967 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
968 for all multi-message initiating connections.
970 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
971 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
972 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
974 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
975 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
976 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
977 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
980 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
981 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
982 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
985 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
987 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
988 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
990 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
991 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
992 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
994 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
995 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
996 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
999 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1000 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1002 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1003 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1004 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1006 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1007 for the build is renamed.
1009 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1010 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1011 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1013 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1014 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1015 result replacing the original.
1017 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1018 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1019 and the resources needed to be freed.
1021 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1023 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1026 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1027 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1028 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1029 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1031 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1032 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1034 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1035 newer versions of the scanner.
1037 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1038 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1039 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1040 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1041 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1042 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1043 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1045 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1046 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1047 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1048 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1049 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1050 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1051 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1052 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1053 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1054 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1056 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1057 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1059 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1061 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1062 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1064 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1065 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1067 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1068 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1069 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1071 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1072 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1073 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1074 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1076 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1077 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1080 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1081 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1083 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1084 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1085 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1086 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1087 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1089 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1090 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1093 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1094 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1096 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1099 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1100 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1101 "bare" representation.
1103 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1104 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1105 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1106 corrupted the output.
1112 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1113 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1114 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1115 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1117 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1118 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1120 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1121 This permits better logging.
1123 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1124 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1125 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1126 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1127 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1128 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1130 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1131 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1134 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1135 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1136 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1138 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1139 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1141 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1142 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1143 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1144 client, there is no benefit for these.
1145 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1146 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1147 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1150 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1151 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1153 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1154 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1155 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1157 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1158 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1160 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1161 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1162 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1163 signature and again for transmission.
1165 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1166 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1167 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1169 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1170 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1171 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1172 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1173 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1174 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1175 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1177 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1178 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1179 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1180 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1182 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1183 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1184 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1185 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1186 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1187 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1190 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1191 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1192 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1193 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1196 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1197 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1198 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1199 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1202 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1203 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1206 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1207 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1208 banner-time rejection.
1210 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1213 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1214 is the name of a transport.
1217 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1219 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1220 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1222 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1223 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1224 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1227 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1228 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1229 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1230 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1232 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1233 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1234 initial verify call returned a defer.
1236 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1237 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1239 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1240 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1242 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1243 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1245 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1246 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1248 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1249 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1252 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1253 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1255 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1256 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1257 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1259 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1260 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1261 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1262 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1264 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1265 and confused the parent.
1267 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1268 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1270 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1273 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1274 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1275 out-of-order delivery.
1277 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1278 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1279 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1282 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1283 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1286 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1287 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1288 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1290 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1291 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1292 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1293 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1294 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1295 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1297 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1298 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1299 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1301 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1302 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1303 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1305 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1306 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1307 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1308 though a different problem.
1314 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1315 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1317 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1319 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1320 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1322 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1323 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1325 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1326 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1327 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1328 before acknowledging the chunk.
1330 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1331 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1332 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1334 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1335 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1336 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1339 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1340 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1341 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1343 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1344 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1346 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1347 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1348 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1349 body hash calculated value.
1351 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1352 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1353 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1355 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1357 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1358 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1360 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1361 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1362 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1364 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1365 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1366 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1367 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1368 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1369 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1371 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1372 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1373 past that check, despite the cost.
1375 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1376 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1377 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1379 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1380 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1381 TLS library to consume.
1383 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1385 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1387 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1388 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1389 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1390 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1391 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1392 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1393 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1395 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1397 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1399 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1400 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1401 should be warning-free.
1403 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1405 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1406 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1408 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1409 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1410 general solution here.
1412 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1413 already-broken messages in the queue.
1415 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1417 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1423 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1424 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1426 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1427 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1428 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1430 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1431 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1432 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1433 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1434 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1435 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1436 if one fails this test.
1437 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1438 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1440 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1441 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1443 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1444 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1446 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1447 in rewrites and routers.
1449 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1450 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1452 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1453 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1455 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1457 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1460 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1461 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1462 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1463 connection after a verify cache hit.
1464 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1466 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1467 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1469 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1470 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1471 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1472 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1473 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1475 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1476 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1478 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1479 Previously they were not counted.
1481 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1482 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1483 that needed the lookup.
1485 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1486 distinguished as "(=".
1488 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1489 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1491 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1493 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1494 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1496 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1497 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1499 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1500 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1503 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1504 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1505 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1506 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1508 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1510 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1511 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1512 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1514 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1515 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1516 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1519 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1520 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1521 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1524 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1525 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1526 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1528 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1529 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1532 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1534 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1535 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1537 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1538 are not in the system include path.
1540 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1541 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1542 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1543 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1545 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1546 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1547 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1549 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1551 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1552 an incoming connection.
1554 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1557 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1558 fallback to "prime256v1".
1560 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1561 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1567 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1568 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1569 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1570 client dropping the TLS connection.
1572 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1573 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1575 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1576 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1577 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1578 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1581 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1582 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1583 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1584 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1585 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1586 check on the next write.
1588 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1589 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1590 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1591 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1592 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1594 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1595 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1597 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1598 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1599 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1601 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1602 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1603 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1604 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1606 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1607 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1609 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1610 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1612 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1613 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1614 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1617 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1619 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1621 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1623 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1624 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1626 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1627 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1629 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1631 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1632 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1634 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1636 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1637 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1639 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1641 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1642 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1643 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1644 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1645 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1646 they will retry in-clear.
1647 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1648 at installation time.
1650 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1651 with the $config_file variable.
1653 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1654 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1655 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1656 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1657 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1659 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1660 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1661 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1662 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1663 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1665 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1667 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1668 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1669 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1670 list order is no longer honoured.
1672 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1673 for DKIM processing.
1675 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1676 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1678 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1679 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1680 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1681 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1683 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1684 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1686 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1687 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1689 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1690 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1692 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1694 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1695 cached by the daemon.
1697 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1698 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1700 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1701 keys are given for lookup.
1703 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1704 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1705 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1706 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1708 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1709 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1710 server-side so match that on older versions.
1712 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1713 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1714 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1716 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1717 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1719 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1720 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1721 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1722 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1723 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1724 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1725 initial truncated version.
1727 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1729 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1731 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1732 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1734 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1736 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1738 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1739 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1742 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1743 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1746 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1747 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1749 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1750 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1753 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1754 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1755 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1757 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1758 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1759 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1760 extraction. Accept either.
1766 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1769 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1771 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1774 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1775 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1776 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1777 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1779 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1780 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1781 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1783 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1784 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1785 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1788 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1791 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1792 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1793 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1794 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1795 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1797 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1798 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1799 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1801 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1803 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1804 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1806 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1807 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1809 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1812 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1813 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1815 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1816 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1817 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1819 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1820 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1821 specify a port-range.
1823 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1824 timeout value per server.
1826 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1827 now have the list separator specified.
1829 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1832 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1835 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1837 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1838 rather than the verbs used.
1840 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1841 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1843 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1845 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1846 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1848 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1849 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1851 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1852 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1854 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1856 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1858 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1859 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1860 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1861 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1863 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1865 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1866 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1868 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1869 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1871 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1873 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1875 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1877 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1878 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1880 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1881 added for tls authenticator.
1883 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1889 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1890 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1891 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1892 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1893 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1894 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1895 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1897 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1898 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1899 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1900 function when detected.
1902 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1903 cause callback expansion.
1905 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1906 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1907 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1908 instead of bool when processing it.
1910 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1911 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1913 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1915 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1917 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1919 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1920 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1922 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1923 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1924 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1925 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1926 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1927 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1929 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1930 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1933 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1934 version 3.3.6 or later.
1936 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1937 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1938 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1939 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1940 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1941 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1944 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1945 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1947 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1948 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1949 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1952 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1953 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1954 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1956 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1957 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1959 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1960 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1963 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1965 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1966 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1968 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1969 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1972 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1974 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1977 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1978 output list separator was used.
1983 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1984 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1987 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1988 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1990 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1992 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1993 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1999 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2001 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2002 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2003 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2004 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2005 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2006 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2008 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2009 utilities have not been installed.
2011 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2012 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2014 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2015 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2017 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2018 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2019 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2020 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2022 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2024 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2025 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2027 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2030 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2032 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2033 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2034 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2036 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2037 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2038 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2039 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2040 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2041 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2043 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2045 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2046 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2048 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2051 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2053 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2055 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2056 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2058 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2059 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2061 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2063 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2065 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2066 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2068 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2069 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2070 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2072 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2073 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2074 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2077 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2079 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2080 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2083 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2084 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2087 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2088 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2090 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2091 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2093 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2095 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2096 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2097 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2099 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2100 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2102 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2103 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2106 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2107 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2108 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2110 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2112 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2113 Christian Aistleitner.
2115 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2117 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2118 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2120 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2121 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2123 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2124 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2126 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2127 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2129 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2130 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2132 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2133 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2134 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2136 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2138 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2139 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2142 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2144 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2145 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2152 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2154 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2155 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2157 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2160 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2161 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2164 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2166 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2167 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2168 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2169 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2170 using channel bindings instead).
2172 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2173 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2174 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2175 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2176 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2179 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2181 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2183 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2184 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2186 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2187 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2188 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2190 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2192 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2194 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2195 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2197 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2199 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2201 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2203 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2204 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2206 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2208 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2209 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2212 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2213 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2215 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2216 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2219 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2221 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2223 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2224 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2226 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2229 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2230 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2232 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2233 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2235 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2237 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2239 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2242 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2245 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2247 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2248 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2249 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2250 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2252 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2254 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2255 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2256 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2257 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2260 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2261 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2262 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2264 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2265 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2266 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2267 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2269 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2270 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2271 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2272 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2273 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2274 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2275 delivery, as in LMTP.
2277 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2278 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2280 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2282 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2286 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2287 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2288 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2289 username as equal to the username.
2291 This change corrects that bug.
2293 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2294 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2295 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2297 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2299 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2300 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2301 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2302 NULL dereference and crash.
2304 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2306 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2307 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2308 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2310 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2312 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2313 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2314 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2315 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2316 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2317 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2318 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2319 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2320 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2321 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2322 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2324 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2325 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2327 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2328 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2331 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2332 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2333 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2334 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2335 an empty string is now equivalent.
2337 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2338 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2339 not performing validation itself.
2341 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2342 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2344 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2347 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2349 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2350 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2351 other false fix of the same issue.
2352 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2355 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2356 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2358 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2359 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2360 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2362 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2363 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2364 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2366 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2368 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2370 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2371 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2373 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2376 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2377 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2378 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2379 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2380 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2382 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2383 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2385 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2386 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2389 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2390 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2391 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2392 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2394 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2396 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2397 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2398 from multiple comments on this bug.
2400 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2402 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2403 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2406 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2407 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2409 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2410 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2416 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2418 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2424 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2425 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2426 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2428 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2430 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2433 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2435 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2437 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2439 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2440 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2442 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2443 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2445 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2446 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2448 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2449 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2450 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2452 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2454 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2455 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2457 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2459 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2461 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2462 non-compliant senders.
2463 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2465 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2466 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2467 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2469 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2470 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2471 in spool file corruption.
2473 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2474 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2475 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2478 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2479 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2480 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2482 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2483 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2485 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2487 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2489 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2491 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2492 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2493 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2495 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2496 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2497 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2498 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2500 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2501 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2503 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2504 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2505 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2506 resolver implementation change.
2508 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2509 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2511 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2513 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2515 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2516 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2518 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2519 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2521 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2522 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2524 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2525 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2526 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2527 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2528 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2530 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2532 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2533 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2534 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2536 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2538 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2539 read-only, out of scope).
2540 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2542 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2543 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2544 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2545 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2547 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2549 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2550 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2551 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2552 real issues in debug logging.
2554 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2555 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2557 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2558 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2559 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2561 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2562 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2563 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2566 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2567 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2569 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2570 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2571 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2572 needs to override this, it can.
2574 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2575 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2576 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2578 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2579 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2580 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2581 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2583 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2589 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2590 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2592 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2594 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2597 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2598 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2600 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2601 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2602 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2604 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2605 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2606 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2607 not safe for signals.
2609 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2610 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2611 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2612 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2615 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2617 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2618 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2619 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2620 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2621 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2623 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2624 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2625 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2626 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2627 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2628 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2630 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2631 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2632 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2633 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2635 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2636 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2637 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2638 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2640 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2641 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2642 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2643 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2644 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2645 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2646 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2647 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2648 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2650 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2651 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2652 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2653 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2655 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2656 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2657 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2658 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2659 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2660 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2661 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2662 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2663 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2664 details in the main documentation.
2666 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2668 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2670 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2671 repository when doing development or release builds.
2673 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2674 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2676 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2677 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2680 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2682 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2683 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2685 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2686 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2688 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2689 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2691 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2692 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2694 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2695 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2697 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2699 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2702 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2703 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2704 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2706 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2708 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2710 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2711 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2717 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2719 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2720 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2722 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2724 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2726 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2729 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2730 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2732 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2733 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2735 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2736 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2738 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2741 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2742 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2744 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2745 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2746 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2747 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2749 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2750 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2756 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2759 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2760 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2761 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2763 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2764 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2766 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2767 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2768 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2770 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2771 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2773 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2774 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2776 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2777 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2779 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2780 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2782 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2783 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2785 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2788 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2789 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2791 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2792 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2794 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2795 SQL string expansion failure details.
2796 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2798 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2799 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2801 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2802 extern declarations in function scope.
2803 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2805 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2806 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2807 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2810 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2811 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2813 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2814 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2816 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2817 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2819 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2820 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2822 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2823 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2826 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2828 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2830 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2831 Patch by Simon Arlott
2833 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2834 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2840 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2841 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2843 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2844 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2846 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2848 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2849 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2850 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2852 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2853 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2854 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2856 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2857 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2858 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2859 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2861 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2862 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2863 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2864 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2866 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2867 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2868 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2871 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2874 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2875 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2876 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2877 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2878 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2884 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2885 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2886 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2888 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2889 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2891 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2893 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2895 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2897 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2899 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2901 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2902 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2903 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2904 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2906 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2907 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2908 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2909 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2910 more caution in buffer sizes.
2912 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2914 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2916 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2918 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2920 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2922 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2924 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2926 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2927 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2928 ignore trailing whitespace.
2930 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2932 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2935 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2936 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2938 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2939 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2940 Notification from John Horne.
2942 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2945 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2946 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2949 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2952 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2953 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2954 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2956 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2957 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2958 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2961 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2962 option (effectively making it always true).
2964 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2965 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2967 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2968 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2970 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2971 run-time user, instead of root.
2973 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2974 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2976 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2977 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2980 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2981 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2982 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2984 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2986 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2992 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2993 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2996 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2997 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3000 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3001 Patch from Alain Williams
3003 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3005 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3006 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3008 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3009 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3011 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3013 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3015 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3016 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3018 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3020 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3022 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3023 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3024 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3026 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3027 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3029 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3030 Patch by Simon Arlott
3032 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3033 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3039 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3041 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3043 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3045 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3047 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3053 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3054 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3056 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3057 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3060 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3061 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3062 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3064 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3065 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3067 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3068 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3069 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3070 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3072 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3073 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3074 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3076 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3078 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3080 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3081 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3083 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3085 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3086 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3087 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3088 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3090 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3091 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3093 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3095 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3097 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3098 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3100 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3101 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3103 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3104 that they are available at delivery time.
3106 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3108 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3109 incoming_port log selectors.
3111 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3112 setting expands to an empty string.
3114 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3115 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3117 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3118 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3120 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3121 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3123 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3124 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3126 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3127 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3129 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3130 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3132 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3134 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3135 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3137 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3138 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3140 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3142 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3143 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3145 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3147 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3149 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3152 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3153 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3155 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3156 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3158 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3159 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3161 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3162 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3164 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3165 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3167 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3168 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3170 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3171 plus update to original patch.
3173 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3175 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3176 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3178 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3180 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3182 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3184 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3186 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3187 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3189 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3190 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3192 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3193 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3195 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3196 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3198 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3200 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3202 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3204 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3210 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3211 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3212 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3214 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3215 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3216 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3217 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3218 build errors in sieve.c.
3220 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3221 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3222 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3224 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3226 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3228 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3230 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3236 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3238 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3239 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3240 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3241 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3242 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3243 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3244 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3245 for iplsearch lookups.
3247 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3248 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3249 previously such lookups could never work.
3251 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3252 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3253 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3255 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3258 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3259 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3260 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3261 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3262 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3263 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3265 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3266 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3268 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3269 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3270 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3271 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3272 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3273 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3275 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3278 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3280 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3281 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3284 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3285 by clients under certain conditions.
3287 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3288 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3290 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3292 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3293 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3295 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3297 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3299 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3301 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3302 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3304 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3306 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3307 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3309 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3311 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3313 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3314 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3315 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3316 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3318 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3319 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3320 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3322 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3323 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3325 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3327 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3329 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3331 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3332 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3333 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3339 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3340 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3343 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3344 issue a MAIL command.
3346 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3348 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3350 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3351 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3352 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3353 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3354 item. This has been fixed.
3356 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3357 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3359 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3360 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3362 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3363 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3364 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3366 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3368 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3369 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3370 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3371 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3372 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3374 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3375 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3376 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3378 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3379 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3380 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3381 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3383 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3385 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3387 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3388 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3389 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3390 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3391 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3393 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3395 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3396 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3397 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3400 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3402 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3404 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3406 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3408 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3410 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3411 no_callout_flush is set.
3413 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3414 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3415 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3418 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3420 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3421 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3422 other ACL rejections are.
3424 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3425 with slight modification.
3427 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3428 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3430 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3431 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3434 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3435 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3437 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3439 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3440 expansion side effects.
3442 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3443 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3444 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3447 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3448 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3449 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3451 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3452 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3453 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3454 were accidentally chopped off.
3456 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3457 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3458 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3459 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3460 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3461 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3462 pipelining has not been advertised.
3464 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3466 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3467 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3468 This has been fixed.
3470 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3471 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3472 reported on Solaris.
3474 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3475 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3476 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3477 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3478 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3479 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3480 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3482 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3485 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3487 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3489 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3490 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3491 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3492 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3493 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3494 criteria to be more general.
3496 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3497 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3498 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3499 host_all_ignored option.
3501 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3502 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3503 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3504 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3505 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3506 is what is supposed to happen).
3508 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3509 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3510 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3511 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3512 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3515 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3516 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3517 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3518 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3519 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3520 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3523 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3525 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3526 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3528 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3529 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3531 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3533 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3535 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3536 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3537 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3538 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3539 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3540 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3541 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3542 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3543 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3544 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3545 least in a lot of common cases.
3547 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3548 advertised in response to EHLO.
3554 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3555 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3557 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3558 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3560 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3561 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3562 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3564 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3565 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3566 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3567 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3568 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3574 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3575 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3578 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3579 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3580 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3582 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3583 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3584 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3585 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3586 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3587 rather than extend the field.
3593 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3594 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3595 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3596 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3599 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3600 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3601 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3603 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3604 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3605 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3607 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3608 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3609 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3612 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3613 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3614 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3615 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3616 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3617 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3618 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3619 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3620 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3621 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3622 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3624 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3627 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3628 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3629 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3630 ignores EPIPE as well.
3632 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3633 (quoted-printable decoding).
3635 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3636 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3638 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3640 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3642 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3644 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3645 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3647 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3650 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3651 miscellaneous code fixes
3653 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3656 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3657 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3658 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3659 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3660 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3661 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3662 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3663 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3665 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3666 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3667 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3668 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3670 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3671 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3672 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3673 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3674 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3675 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3676 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3677 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3678 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3680 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3683 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3684 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3685 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3686 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3687 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3688 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3689 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3690 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3692 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3693 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3696 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3697 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3698 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3699 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3700 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3701 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3702 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3703 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3704 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3705 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3706 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3707 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3708 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3710 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3711 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3712 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3713 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3714 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3715 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3716 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3718 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3719 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3720 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3721 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3722 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3723 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3724 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3725 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3726 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3727 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3729 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3730 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3731 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3732 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3733 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3735 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3736 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3737 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3738 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3739 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3740 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3741 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3743 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3744 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3745 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3746 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3747 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3748 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3751 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3752 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3753 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3756 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3757 if any retry times were supplied.
3759 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3760 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3761 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3763 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3765 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3767 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3768 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3769 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3770 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3771 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3772 before) are ignored.
3774 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3775 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3777 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3778 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3779 committing the later change.]
3781 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3782 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3783 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3784 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3785 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3786 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3787 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3788 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3789 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3791 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3792 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3793 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3794 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3795 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3796 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3797 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3798 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3799 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3801 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3802 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3803 hammering the server.
3805 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3806 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3808 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3810 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3811 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3812 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3814 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3815 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3816 one case where this was not true.
3818 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3819 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3820 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3821 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3824 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3825 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3826 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3827 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3828 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3829 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3830 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3831 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3832 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3835 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3836 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3837 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3838 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3840 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3841 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3843 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3844 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3845 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3847 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3849 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3851 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3853 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3854 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3855 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3856 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3858 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3859 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3861 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3862 be meaningful with "accept".
3864 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3865 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3867 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3868 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3869 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3871 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3872 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3873 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3874 there is data to show.
3875 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3877 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3878 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3879 as well as the number of messages.
3881 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3882 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3883 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3885 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3886 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3887 have a flag are now skipped.
3889 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3890 Added the -emptyok flag.
3892 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3893 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3895 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3896 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3897 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3899 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3902 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3903 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3905 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3907 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3908 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3910 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3912 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3913 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3914 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3915 contravention of the specifications.
3917 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3918 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3919 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3921 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3922 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3923 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3925 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3927 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3928 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3929 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3930 some point in the past.
3932 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3933 transport during callout processing was broken.
3935 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3936 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3938 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3939 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3941 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3942 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3944 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3950 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3951 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3953 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3954 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3955 there is data to show.
3956 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3958 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3959 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3961 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3962 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3964 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3965 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3967 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3968 submissions from trusted users.
3970 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3971 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3973 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3974 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3975 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3976 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3977 there is now a framework to start from.
3979 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3980 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3981 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3983 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3985 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3987 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3989 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3990 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3991 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3993 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3996 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3997 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3998 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4000 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4001 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4002 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4005 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4006 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4007 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4008 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4009 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4011 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4012 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4014 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4016 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4017 operations in malware.c.
4019 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4022 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4023 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4024 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4027 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4028 statements to "add_header".
4030 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4031 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4033 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4034 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4037 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4041 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4042 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4043 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4046 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4047 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4049 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4050 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4052 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4053 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4054 any possible encoding problems.
4056 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4057 but not after initializing Perl.
4059 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4060 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4061 apparently, which is not desirable.
4063 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4066 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4069 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4071 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4072 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4073 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4074 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4076 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4077 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4078 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4080 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4081 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4082 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4085 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4086 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4087 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4088 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4089 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4095 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4096 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4098 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4101 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4102 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4103 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4104 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4105 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4106 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4107 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4108 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4111 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4113 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4114 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4115 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4117 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4118 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4119 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4122 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4123 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4125 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4126 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4127 option (which defaults to 0600).
4129 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4131 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4132 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4133 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4134 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4135 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4136 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4137 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4139 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4145 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4146 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4147 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4148 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4149 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4150 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4153 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4154 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4156 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4158 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4159 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4160 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4161 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4162 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4165 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4166 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4168 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4169 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4170 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4171 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4172 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4174 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4175 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4176 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4177 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4179 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4180 be the same on different OS.
4182 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4185 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4186 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4188 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4191 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4192 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4193 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4194 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4195 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4196 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4199 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4200 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4201 when Exim was called.
4203 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4204 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4206 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4207 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4208 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4209 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4211 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4212 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4213 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4214 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4217 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4218 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4219 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4221 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4222 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4223 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4225 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4228 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4229 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4230 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4231 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4232 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4233 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4234 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4235 values from the SRV records were lost.
4237 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4238 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4239 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4241 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4242 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4243 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4245 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4246 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4247 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4248 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4249 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4250 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4251 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4252 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4253 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4254 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4256 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4257 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4258 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4260 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4261 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4263 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4264 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4265 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4266 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4269 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4270 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4271 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4273 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4274 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4275 PH/23 above applies.
4277 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4278 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4279 (for which there is an explicit test).
4281 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4283 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4284 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4285 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4286 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4287 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4289 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4290 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4291 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4292 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4294 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4295 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4296 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4298 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4300 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4302 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4303 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4304 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4306 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4307 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4308 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4309 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4310 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4312 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4313 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4314 the message gets confusing).
4316 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4317 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4318 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4319 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4321 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4322 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4323 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4324 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4327 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4328 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4329 the different processes.
4331 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4333 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4335 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4336 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4338 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4339 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4341 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4342 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4343 messages matching specified criteria.
4345 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4347 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4348 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4350 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4351 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4352 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4353 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4354 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4355 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4356 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4357 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4358 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4359 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4361 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4362 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4363 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4365 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4367 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4368 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4369 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4370 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4371 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4372 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4373 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4376 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4377 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4379 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4381 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4383 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4385 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4386 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4387 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4388 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4389 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4390 size of the count of files.
4392 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4394 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4397 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4398 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4399 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4400 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4402 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4403 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4404 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4406 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4407 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4408 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4409 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4410 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4412 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4413 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4415 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4416 will now be deprecated.
4418 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4420 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4421 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4422 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4424 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4425 with very large, slow to parse queues
4427 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4429 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4431 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4432 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4433 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4436 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4437 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4438 Sieve code now uses this.
4440 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4441 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4443 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4444 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4446 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4448 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4449 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4450 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4451 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4452 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4454 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4455 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4456 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4457 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4459 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4461 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4463 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4464 is preferred over IPv4.
4466 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4467 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4468 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4469 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4470 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4471 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4472 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4474 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4475 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4476 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4478 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4480 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4481 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4482 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4483 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4484 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4485 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4486 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4487 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4488 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4489 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4490 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4492 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4493 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4494 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4500 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4502 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4503 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4505 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4506 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4507 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4509 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4511 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4514 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4517 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4518 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4519 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4522 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4523 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4525 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4526 inside the third argument.
4528 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4529 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4532 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4533 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4535 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4536 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4538 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4540 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4541 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4544 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4546 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4547 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4548 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4549 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4550 identical. For example:
4552 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4554 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4555 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4556 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4558 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4559 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4560 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4561 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4563 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4564 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4565 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4568 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4570 o fixes some comments
4571 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4572 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4573 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4574 and documents the missing references header update
4578 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4579 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4582 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4583 Electronic Mail") by including:
4585 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4587 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4588 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4589 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4590 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4591 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4593 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4595 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4597 The auto-replied keyword:
4599 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4600 message by an automatic process,
4602 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4604 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4605 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4607 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4608 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4611 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4612 to the default Received: header definition.
4614 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4616 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4617 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4618 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4620 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4621 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4622 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4624 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4625 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4626 and treats the condition as false.
4628 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4630 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4631 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4632 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4633 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4634 not changing the active code.
4636 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4637 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4639 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4640 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4642 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4645 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4646 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4647 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4648 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4649 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4650 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4651 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4652 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4653 the text comparison.
4655 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4656 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4657 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4658 The same fix has been applied.
4664 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4665 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4668 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4669 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4671 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4673 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4674 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4675 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4676 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4677 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4679 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4680 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4681 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4682 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4685 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4693 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4694 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4696 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4698 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4700 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4701 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4702 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4704 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4705 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4706 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4708 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4709 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4712 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4713 ${stat: expansion item.
4715 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4716 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4718 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4719 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4722 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4724 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4727 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4728 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4730 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4732 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4733 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4734 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4735 the end of the subprocess.
4737 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4738 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4739 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4740 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4741 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4743 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4745 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4747 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4748 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4750 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4752 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4754 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4755 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4758 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4760 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4761 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4762 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4764 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4765 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4767 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4768 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4770 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4771 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4773 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4774 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4776 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4777 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4778 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4779 contributed by a Radius user.
4781 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4782 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4784 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4785 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4787 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4790 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4791 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4794 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4795 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4796 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4797 header lines when this was not necessary.
4799 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4801 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4802 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4803 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4806 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4809 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4810 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4811 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4812 return code was incorrect.
4814 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4816 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4818 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4820 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4822 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4823 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4824 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4825 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4826 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4829 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4831 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4832 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4833 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4834 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4835 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4836 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4837 which is clearly wrong.
4839 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4841 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4842 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4843 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4846 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4847 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4849 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4851 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4852 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4854 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4855 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4857 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4858 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4860 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4861 recipients, not senders.
4863 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4864 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4866 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4868 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4870 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4871 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4872 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4873 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4875 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4877 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4878 clock is set back in time.
4880 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4881 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4883 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4884 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4886 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4887 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4890 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4891 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4894 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4897 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4899 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4900 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4901 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4903 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4904 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4905 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4906 helo verification defer as a failure.
4908 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4909 actual error message.
4915 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4917 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4918 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4919 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4920 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4922 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4924 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4925 can still be requested.
4927 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4928 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4929 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4930 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4932 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4933 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4934 circumstances, but probably never did.
4936 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4937 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4938 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4941 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4943 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4944 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4946 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4948 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4950 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4951 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4952 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4953 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4954 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4955 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4957 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4958 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4959 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4960 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4961 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4962 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4964 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4965 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4967 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4968 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4970 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4971 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4973 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4975 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4977 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4979 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4981 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4983 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4985 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4987 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4988 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4989 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4991 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4992 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4993 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4994 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4996 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4997 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4998 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5000 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5001 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5002 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5003 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5005 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5006 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5009 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5010 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5011 should work with maildirs and everything.
5013 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5014 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5016 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5019 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5020 function for BDB 4.3.
5022 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5024 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5025 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5028 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5029 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5030 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5031 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5032 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5033 formatting function string_vformat().
5035 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5036 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5037 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5038 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5039 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5040 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5041 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5042 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5044 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5045 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5048 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5049 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5051 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5052 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5053 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5054 test. It is now used for both.
5056 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5057 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5058 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5059 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5060 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5061 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5063 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5064 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5065 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5068 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5069 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5070 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5072 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5073 experimental DomainKeys support:
5075 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5076 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5077 the control was given.
5079 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5081 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5083 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5085 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5086 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5087 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5090 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5091 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5092 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5093 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5094 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5095 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5098 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5099 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5100 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5101 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5102 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5103 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5105 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5106 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5107 do -d+all out of habit.
5109 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5110 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5113 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5114 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5115 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5116 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5117 record types that Exim uses.
5119 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5120 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5121 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5122 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5123 non-existent file that was broken.
5125 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5126 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5128 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5129 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5130 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5132 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5134 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5135 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5136 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5137 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5138 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5141 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5142 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5143 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5144 at a slight CPU cost.
5146 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5147 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5149 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5152 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5154 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5155 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5161 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5162 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5164 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5166 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5168 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5169 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5171 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5172 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5173 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5174 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5175 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5176 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5179 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5180 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5181 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5182 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5185 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5186 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5187 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5188 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5189 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5190 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5191 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5194 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5195 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5197 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5198 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5199 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5200 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5201 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5202 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5204 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5205 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5206 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5207 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5209 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5212 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5213 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5215 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5216 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5217 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5218 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5221 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5223 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5224 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5226 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5227 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5228 to what was transported.)
5230 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5232 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5233 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5234 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5235 spamd_address settings.
5237 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5238 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5239 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5240 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5241 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5243 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5245 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5246 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5247 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5248 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5249 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5251 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5252 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5254 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5255 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5256 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5257 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5258 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5259 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5260 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5263 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5264 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5265 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5266 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5267 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5268 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5269 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5272 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5274 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5275 driver and ACL definitions.
5277 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5278 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5280 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5281 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5282 understands it better than I do:
5284 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5285 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5287 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5288 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5289 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5290 => three warnings about OTP not working
5291 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5293 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5294 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5295 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5296 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5298 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5299 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5301 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5302 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5303 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5305 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5306 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5309 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5310 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5313 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5314 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5315 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5317 warn !verify = sender
5318 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5320 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5321 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5323 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5325 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5326 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5328 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5329 nomenclature these days.)
5331 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5332 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5334 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5335 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5336 . First host does not offer TLS;
5337 . First host accepts first address;
5338 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5339 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5340 . Second host accepts second address.
5341 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5342 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5345 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5346 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5347 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5348 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5349 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5351 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5352 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5354 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5355 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5357 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5358 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5359 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5361 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5362 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5365 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5367 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5368 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5369 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5370 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5371 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5372 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5373 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5375 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5376 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5377 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5378 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5379 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5381 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5382 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5385 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5386 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5387 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5388 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5389 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5390 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5392 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5394 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5395 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5396 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5397 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5398 printable escape sequences.
5400 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5401 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5404 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5405 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5408 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5409 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5410 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5411 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5412 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5414 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5415 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5416 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5418 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5420 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5421 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5424 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5425 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5426 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5427 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5428 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5429 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5430 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5431 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5432 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5435 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5436 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5437 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5438 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5442 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5443 ----------------------------------------
5445 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5446 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5447 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5448 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5449 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5450 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5453 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5454 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5455 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5456 historical information.
5462 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5464 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5465 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5467 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5468 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5471 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5472 filter fails to execute.
5474 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5475 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5476 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5477 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5478 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5480 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5482 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5483 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5484 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5485 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5487 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5488 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5489 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5490 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5491 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5493 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5495 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5497 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5498 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5499 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5500 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5502 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5503 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5504 sender verification.
5506 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5507 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5509 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5511 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5514 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5515 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5517 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5518 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5520 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5521 information about exactly what failed.
5523 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5525 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5526 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5527 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5529 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5530 It is now set to "smtps".
5532 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5533 ignore_target_hosts.
5535 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5536 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5537 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5538 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5541 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5542 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5543 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5545 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5546 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5547 wake it up if nothing else does.
5549 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5550 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5551 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5554 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5555 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5557 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5559 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5560 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5561 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5562 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5563 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5564 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5565 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5566 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5568 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5569 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5570 than one IP address.
5572 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5573 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5574 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5575 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5577 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5578 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5579 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5580 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5581 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5584 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5585 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5586 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5587 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5589 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5590 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5593 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5594 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5595 $sender_host_address.
5597 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5598 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5599 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5600 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5601 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5604 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5606 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5607 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5609 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5610 just the host names, not the priorities.
5612 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5613 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5614 controlled by a keyword.
5616 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5617 multiple records are returned.
5619 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5620 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5623 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5625 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5626 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5628 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5629 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5630 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5632 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5634 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5636 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5638 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5639 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5640 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5641 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5642 because the tests only now provoked it.
5644 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5645 (this can affect the format of dates).
5647 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5648 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5649 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5650 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5652 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5654 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5655 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5656 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5657 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5659 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5660 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5661 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5663 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5666 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5667 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5668 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5669 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5670 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5671 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5674 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5675 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5676 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5679 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5680 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5681 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5683 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5684 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5685 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5686 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5687 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5688 so I produce this patch..."
5690 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5691 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5694 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5695 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5696 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5697 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5700 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5702 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5703 long debug lines gets shown.
5705 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5706 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5708 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5710 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5711 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5712 of $primary_hostname.
5714 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5715 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5716 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5717 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5718 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5719 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5720 by change 4.50/55 above.
5722 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5723 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5724 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5725 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5726 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5727 running as the user.
5730 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5731 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5732 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5735 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5736 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5738 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5739 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5740 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5741 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5742 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5744 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5745 This has been fixed.
5747 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5748 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5749 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5750 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5753 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5755 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5756 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5757 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5758 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5760 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5761 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5763 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5764 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5765 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5767 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5768 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5769 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5772 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5773 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5774 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5776 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5777 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5778 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5779 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5781 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5782 during host lookups.
5784 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5785 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5787 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5789 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5790 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5791 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5792 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5793 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5796 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5797 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5799 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5800 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5801 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5803 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5805 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5806 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5807 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5808 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5809 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5810 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5813 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5814 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5815 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5816 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5817 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5819 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5822 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5824 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5825 "vacation" handling.
5827 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5828 OS variants using glibc.
5830 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5833 ----------------------------------------------------
5834 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5835 ----------------------------------------------------
5841 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5842 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5845 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5846 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5849 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5850 filter fails to execute.
5852 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5853 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5854 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5855 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5856 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5858 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5859 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5860 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5861 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5863 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5864 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5865 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5866 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5867 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5869 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5871 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5872 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5873 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5874 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5876 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5877 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5878 sender verification.
5880 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5881 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5883 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5884 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5886 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5887 ignore_target_hosts.
5889 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5890 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5891 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5892 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5895 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5896 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5897 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5899 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5900 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5901 wake it up if nothing else does.
5903 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5904 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5905 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5908 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5909 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5911 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5913 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5914 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5917 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5918 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5921 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5922 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5923 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5924 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5925 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5928 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5929 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5932 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5933 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5934 $sender_host_address.
5936 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5938 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5939 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5940 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5942 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5945 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5946 (this can affect the format of dates).
5948 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5949 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5950 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5951 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5953 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5954 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5955 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5957 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5958 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5959 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5960 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5962 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5963 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5964 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5966 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5969 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5970 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5971 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5972 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5973 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5974 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5977 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5978 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5979 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5980 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5983 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5984 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5985 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5986 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5987 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5988 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5989 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5991 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5992 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5993 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5994 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5995 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5996 running as the user.
5999 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6000 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6001 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6004 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6005 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6006 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6007 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6008 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6010 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6011 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6012 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6013 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6016 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6017 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6018 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6019 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6020 because the tests only now provoked it.
6026 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6027 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6028 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6029 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6030 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6031 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6032 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6034 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6035 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6038 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6040 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6042 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6043 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6046 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6047 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6048 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6049 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6050 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6052 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6053 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6055 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6057 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6059 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6062 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6063 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6065 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6066 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6067 affecting debugging statements).
6069 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6071 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6072 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6073 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6074 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6075 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6076 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6077 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6078 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6079 after the received time, and all would be well.
6081 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6082 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6083 condition in an expansion string.
6085 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6087 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6088 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6089 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6090 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6091 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6092 job under whatever limits there are.
6094 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6096 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6099 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6100 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6101 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6102 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6105 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6106 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6107 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6108 binary data in such strings.
6110 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6112 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6113 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6114 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6115 failure, which is pointless.
6117 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6119 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6121 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6122 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6123 Sender: header lines.
6125 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6126 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6127 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6129 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6130 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6131 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6132 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6133 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6136 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6137 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6138 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6139 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6140 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6142 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6143 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6144 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6147 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6148 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6150 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6151 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6153 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6155 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6157 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6159 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6162 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6164 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6166 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6167 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6168 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6169 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6171 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6172 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6178 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6179 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6180 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6182 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6183 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6184 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6185 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6186 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6187 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6189 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6190 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6191 verification failure".
6193 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6194 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6195 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6196 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6198 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6199 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6200 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6201 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6202 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6203 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6204 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6205 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6206 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6207 treated as a timeout.
6209 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6210 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6211 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6212 not set for Exim filters).
6214 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6215 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6216 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6218 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6220 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6221 try to make them clearer.
6223 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6224 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6226 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6228 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6230 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6231 only the Cygwin environment.
6233 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6234 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6235 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6236 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6237 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6239 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6240 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6241 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6242 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6243 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6244 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6245 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6247 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6248 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6250 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6252 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6253 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6254 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6256 To: susanne@some.where
6258 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6259 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6260 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6261 of addresses in From: header lines).
6263 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6264 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6265 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6267 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6268 treated as non-personal.
6270 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6271 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6273 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6275 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6277 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6278 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6279 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6281 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6282 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6284 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6285 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6286 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6287 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6288 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6289 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6291 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6292 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6293 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6294 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6295 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6296 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6297 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6298 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6300 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6302 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6303 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6305 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6306 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6307 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6309 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6310 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6312 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6313 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6314 rather than long int.
6316 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6318 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6324 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6325 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6326 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6327 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6328 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6329 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6335 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6336 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6338 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6339 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6340 socklen_t is defined.
6342 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6345 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6348 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6349 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6350 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6351 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6352 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6354 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6355 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6356 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6357 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6359 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6360 of flapping under certain conditions.
6362 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6363 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6364 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6366 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6368 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6370 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6371 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6372 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6373 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6375 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6376 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6377 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6378 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6379 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6380 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6381 preserved with the message after it was received.
6383 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6384 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6385 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6386 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6387 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6388 test suite worked just fine.
6390 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6391 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6392 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6394 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6395 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6398 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6399 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6400 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6401 does not fully solve it.
6403 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6404 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6405 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6406 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6407 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6409 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6410 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6411 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6413 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6414 string, for example:
6416 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6418 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6419 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6420 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6421 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6422 the routers could not see them.
6424 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6425 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6427 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6428 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6431 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6432 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6433 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6434 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6435 that needed quoting.
6437 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6438 was not being matched caselessly.
6440 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6443 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6444 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6445 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6446 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6447 when use_sender is false.
6449 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6451 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6453 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6455 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6456 the configuration file.
6458 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6459 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6461 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6463 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6464 bytes in the message body.
6466 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6467 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6470 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6472 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6474 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6475 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6476 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6477 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6484 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6485 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6487 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6488 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6489 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6490 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6491 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6493 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6494 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6496 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6497 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6498 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6500 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6501 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6502 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6504 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6507 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6508 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6509 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6510 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6511 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6512 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6513 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6519 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6520 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6521 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6522 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6523 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6524 default (and expected) setting.
6526 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6527 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6528 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6529 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6531 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6532 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6534 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6537 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6538 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6539 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6540 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6541 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6542 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6544 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6545 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6546 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6548 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6549 part (NOT match_host).
6551 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6553 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6554 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6555 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6556 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6557 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6558 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6559 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6560 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6561 the same named file.
6563 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6564 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6567 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6568 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6569 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6570 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6573 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6574 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6575 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6577 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6579 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6581 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6583 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6584 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6586 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6587 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6588 before starting the TLS session.
6590 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6592 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6593 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6595 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6596 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6597 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6598 colon in the middle).
6604 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6605 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6606 multiple configurations are in use.
6608 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6609 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6610 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6611 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6612 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6613 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6615 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6616 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6618 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6619 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6620 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6622 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6623 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6626 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6627 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6629 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6631 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6632 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6634 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6642 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6643 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6644 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6645 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6646 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6648 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6651 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6652 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6653 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6654 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6655 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6656 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6658 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6659 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6660 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6661 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6662 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6663 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6664 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6667 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6668 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6669 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6670 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6671 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6673 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6675 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6676 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6677 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6679 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6681 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6682 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6683 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6686 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6687 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6689 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6690 Three changes have been made:
6692 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6693 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6694 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6695 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6696 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6698 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6701 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6702 the modified behaviour.
6708 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6711 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6712 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6714 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6715 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6716 try to track down a specific problem.
6718 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6719 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6720 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6722 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6725 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6726 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6727 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6728 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6729 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6730 some earlier ones do not.
6732 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6734 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6735 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6736 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6737 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6738 address literals are enabled, of course).
6740 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6742 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6743 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6744 by a command such as
6748 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6750 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6752 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6753 remained set. It is now erased.
6755 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6756 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6758 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6759 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6760 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6761 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6762 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6763 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6764 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6765 appropriate error code.
6767 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6768 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6769 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6770 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6771 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6772 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6774 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6775 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6776 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6778 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6779 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6780 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6781 terminate the header.
6783 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6784 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6785 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6787 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6788 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6789 (4.30/29). In particular:
6791 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6794 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6795 to write a maildirsize file.
6797 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6798 the transport, the new value overrides.
6800 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6803 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6804 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6805 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6808 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6809 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6810 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6813 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6814 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6815 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6817 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6818 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6821 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6822 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6823 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6825 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6827 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6829 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6831 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6832 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6835 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6836 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6837 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6838 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6839 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6840 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6841 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6844 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6845 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6846 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6847 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6848 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6851 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6852 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6853 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6854 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6855 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6856 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6857 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6858 cached value only when the same options are set.
6860 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6862 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6863 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6864 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6865 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6866 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6868 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6869 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6870 it is clearly obsolete.
6872 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6875 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6876 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6877 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6880 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6881 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6882 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6883 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6884 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6886 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6887 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6888 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6889 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6891 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6893 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6895 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6896 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6899 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6900 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6901 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6902 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6903 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6904 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6907 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6908 with the -f command-line option.
6910 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6911 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6912 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6913 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6914 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6915 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6917 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6918 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6921 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6922 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6923 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6924 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6925 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6926 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6927 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6928 buffer is too small.
6930 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6931 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6933 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6934 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6935 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6936 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6937 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6938 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6939 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6940 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6941 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6943 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6944 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6945 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6947 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6948 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6951 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6952 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6953 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6954 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6955 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6957 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6958 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6959 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6960 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6963 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6965 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6967 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6968 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6970 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6971 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6972 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6974 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6975 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6976 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6977 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6978 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6980 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6981 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6982 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6983 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6984 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6985 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6986 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6988 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6989 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6990 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6991 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6992 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6993 the test of how many are available.
6995 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6996 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6997 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6998 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6999 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7000 new message is started.
7002 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7003 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7005 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7006 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7008 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7009 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7010 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7013 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7014 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7015 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7016 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7017 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7018 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7019 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7021 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7022 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7023 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7024 interpreted as octal.
7026 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7029 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7030 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7031 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7032 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7033 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7034 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7036 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7037 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7038 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7039 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7041 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7042 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7043 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7044 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7046 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7047 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7050 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7051 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7053 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7055 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7056 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7057 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7058 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7060 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7061 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7062 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7063 supplied", which is not helpful.
7065 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7066 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7067 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7069 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7070 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7071 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7072 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7073 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7074 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7075 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7076 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7078 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7079 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7080 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7081 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7082 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7084 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7085 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7086 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7087 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7088 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7089 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7091 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7092 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7093 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7095 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7097 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7098 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7099 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7102 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7104 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7105 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7106 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7107 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7108 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7109 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7110 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7111 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7113 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7114 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7115 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7116 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7117 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7119 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7122 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7123 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7124 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7125 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7126 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7127 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7128 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7129 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7130 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7136 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7137 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7138 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7140 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7143 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7144 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7145 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7147 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7148 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7149 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7150 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7151 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7152 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7154 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7155 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7156 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7157 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7158 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7159 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7160 the Exim test suite.
7162 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7163 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7164 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7165 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7167 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7168 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7169 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7170 specify it in this variable.
7172 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7173 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7174 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7175 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7177 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7178 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7179 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7180 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7182 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7183 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7184 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7185 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7186 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7188 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7190 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7193 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7194 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7195 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7196 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7197 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7199 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7200 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7202 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7203 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7204 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7205 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7206 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7208 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7209 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7211 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7212 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7213 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7215 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7216 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7218 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7219 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7221 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7222 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7223 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7225 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7226 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7228 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7229 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7230 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7231 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7233 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7235 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7236 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7237 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7238 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7240 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7242 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7243 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7245 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7247 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7248 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7249 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7250 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7251 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7252 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7254 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7256 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7257 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7260 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7262 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7263 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7265 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7266 550 Sender verify failed
7268 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7269 the final line of the response.
7271 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7272 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7273 all other user lookups.
7275 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7278 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7279 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7280 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7281 result into an int without checking.
7283 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7284 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7285 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7287 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7288 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7289 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7290 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7292 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7295 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7296 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7298 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7299 to the empty sender.
7301 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7302 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7303 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7304 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7305 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7306 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7307 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7310 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7311 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7312 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7313 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7316 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7317 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7319 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7322 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7323 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7325 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7327 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7328 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7331 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7332 as soon as it is encountered.
7334 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7336 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7339 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7340 recognizes a tab character.
7342 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7343 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7344 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7345 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7347 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7349 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7352 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7354 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7356 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7357 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7360 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7361 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7362 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7363 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7364 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7366 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7367 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7369 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7370 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7371 list (.included file names were always shown).
7373 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7374 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7375 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7378 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7379 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7381 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7383 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7385 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7387 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7388 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7389 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7390 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7391 failures to open the logs.
7393 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7394 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7395 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7396 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7397 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7398 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7399 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7405 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7406 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7407 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7410 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7411 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7412 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7414 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7415 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7416 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7418 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7419 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7420 causing some misleading effects.
7422 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7423 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7424 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7426 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7427 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7428 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7429 queue-runner function directly.
7435 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7438 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7439 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7440 was always written to the default place.
7442 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7443 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7444 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7446 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7448 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7450 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7451 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7452 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7454 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7455 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7458 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7459 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7460 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7462 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7463 command line option is disabled.
7465 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7466 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7468 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7470 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7472 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7473 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7475 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7477 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7478 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7479 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7480 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7481 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7482 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7484 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7485 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7488 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7489 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7491 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7492 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7494 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7495 received was valid base64.
7497 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7498 name of the variable that was being set.
7500 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7502 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7503 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7504 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7505 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7506 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7507 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7509 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7511 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7512 nor realm was specified.
7514 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7515 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7516 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7517 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7519 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7520 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7521 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7523 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7524 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7525 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7527 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7528 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7529 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7530 some systems use these upper case variants.
7532 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7533 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7534 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7535 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7537 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7539 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7540 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7542 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7543 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7546 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7548 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7549 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7550 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7551 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7553 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7556 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7557 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7558 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7560 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7561 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7563 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7564 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7565 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7566 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7568 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7569 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7570 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7572 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7574 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7575 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7576 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7577 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7580 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7581 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7582 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7584 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7586 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7587 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7589 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7590 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7592 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7593 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7594 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7595 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7596 when emails are that large.
7603 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7604 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7606 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7607 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7608 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7610 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7611 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7612 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7614 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7615 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7616 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7617 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7618 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7620 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7621 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7622 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7623 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7624 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7627 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7628 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7629 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7630 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7631 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7632 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7633 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7634 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7635 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7636 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7637 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7638 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7639 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7640 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7642 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7643 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7646 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7647 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7648 error should be diagnosed.
7650 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7651 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7652 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7653 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7654 appeared instead of "NULL".
7656 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7657 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7658 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7659 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7660 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7661 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7664 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7665 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7666 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7672 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7673 or receiver verification errors.
7675 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7678 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7679 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7680 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7681 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7683 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7684 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7685 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7686 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7687 shouldn't happen again.
7689 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7690 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7691 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7693 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7694 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7696 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7698 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7699 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7701 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7702 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7705 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7706 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7707 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7709 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7710 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7711 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7712 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7714 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7715 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7716 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7717 to define what should happen).
7719 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7720 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7721 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7723 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7725 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7727 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7728 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7730 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7731 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7732 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7733 structure in all cases.
7735 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7736 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7737 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7738 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7740 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7741 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7744 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7745 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7747 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7748 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7750 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7751 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7752 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7754 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7755 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7756 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7758 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7759 the book and for uniformity.
7761 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7763 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7764 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7765 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7766 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7767 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7768 non-existent command as the problem.
7770 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7771 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7772 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7774 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7776 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7777 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7778 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7780 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7781 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7782 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7783 timestamps using strftime().
7785 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7786 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7788 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7789 transport-time rewrites.
7791 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7792 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7793 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7794 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7796 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7797 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7799 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7800 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7801 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7802 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7805 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7806 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7807 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7808 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7809 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7810 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7811 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7813 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7814 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7815 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7816 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7817 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7819 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7820 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7821 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7822 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7823 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7824 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7825 remaining text gets split now.
7827 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7828 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7829 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7830 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7832 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7833 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7834 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7835 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7838 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7839 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7840 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7841 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7842 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7843 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7844 passed through if needed.
7846 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7847 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7848 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7849 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7850 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7851 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7853 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7854 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7855 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7856 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7857 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7859 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7860 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7861 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7862 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7863 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7865 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7866 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7869 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7870 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7871 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7872 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7873 mayhem of various kinds.
7875 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7876 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7877 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7878 the right test for positive values.
7880 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7881 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7882 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7883 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7884 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7885 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7886 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7887 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7888 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7889 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7892 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7895 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7896 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7899 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7900 the existing equality matching.
7902 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7903 dealing with inode numbers.
7905 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7906 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7907 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7909 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7910 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7911 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7912 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7915 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7916 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7917 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7918 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7919 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7920 relay addresses has also been removed.
7922 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7924 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7925 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7926 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7928 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7929 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7930 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7931 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7932 processing applies to CR:
7934 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7935 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7937 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7938 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7939 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7940 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7942 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7943 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7944 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7946 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7947 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7948 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7949 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7950 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7951 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7954 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7957 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7958 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7959 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7960 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7963 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7965 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7967 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7969 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7970 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7971 not considered personal.
7973 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7975 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7977 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7979 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7980 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7981 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7982 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7983 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7984 header lines, and spool format errors.
7986 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7987 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7988 for more flexibility.
7990 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7991 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7992 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7994 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7997 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7998 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7999 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8000 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8001 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8002 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8003 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8004 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8005 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8007 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8008 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8009 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8010 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8011 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8012 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8013 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8015 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8016 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8017 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8019 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8020 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8021 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8022 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8023 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8024 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8025 instead of killing the process with assert().
8027 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8028 than Unicode encoding.
8030 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8031 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8032 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8033 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8035 77. Added process_log_path.
8037 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8038 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8040 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8041 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8043 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8044 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8045 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8047 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8048 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8049 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8050 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8051 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8054 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8055 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8058 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8059 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8060 they will be used during message reception.
8066 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.