1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 JH/01 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
9 SMTP connection" log lines.
11 JH/02 Option default value updates:
12 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
13 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
15 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
17 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
18 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
19 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
21 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
22 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
23 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
26 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
27 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
29 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
30 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
31 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
33 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
34 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
35 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
36 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
37 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
39 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
40 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
43 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
44 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
46 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
47 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
48 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
50 HS/01 Bug 2728: Introduce EDITME option "DMARC_API" to work around incompatible
51 API changes in libopendmarc.
53 JH/12 Bug 2930: Fix daemon startup. When started from any process apart from
54 pid 1, in the normal "background daemon" mode, having to drop process-
55 group leadership also lost track of needing to create listener sockets.
57 JH/13 Bug 2929: Fix using $recipients after ${run...}. A change made for 4.96
58 resulted in the variable appearing empty. Find and fix by Ruben Jenster.
60 JH/14 Bug 2933: Fix regex substring match variables for null matches. Since 4.96
61 a capture group which obtained no text (eg. "(abc)*" matching zero
62 occurrences) could cause a segfault if the corresponding $<n> was
65 JH/15 Fix argument parsing for ${run } expansion. Previously, when an argument
66 included a close-brace character (eg. it itself used an expansion) an
69 JH/16 Move running the smtp connect ACL to before, for TLS-on-connect ports,
70 starting TLS. Previously it was after, meaning that attackers on such
71 ports had to be screened using the host_reject_connection main config
72 option. The new sequence aligns better with the STARTTLS behaviour, and
73 permits defences against crypto-processing load attacks, even though it
74 is strictly an incompatible change.
75 Also, avoid sending any SMTP fail response for either the connect ACL
76 or host_reject_connection, for TLS-on-connect ports.
78 JH/17 Permit the ACL "encrypted" condition to be used in a HELO/EHLO ACL,
79 Previously this was not permitted, but it makes reasonable sense.
80 While there, restore a restriction on using it from a connect ACL; given
81 the change JH/16 it could only return false (and before 4.91 was not
84 JH/18 Fix a fencepost error in logging. Previously (since 4.92) when a log line
85 was exactly sized compared to the log buffer, a crash occurred with the
86 misleading message "bad memory reference; pool not found".
87 Found and traced by Jasen Betts.
89 JH/19 Bug 2911: Fix a recursion in DNS lookups. Previously, if the main option
90 dns_again_means_nonexist included an element causing a DNS lookup which
91 iteslf returned DNS_AGAIN, unbounded recursion occurred. Possible results
92 included (though probably not limited to) a process crash from stack
93 memory limit, or from excessive open files. Replace this with a paniclog
94 whine (as this is likely a configuration error), and returning
97 JH/20 Bug 2954: (OpenSSL) Fix setting of explicit EC curve/group. Previously
98 this always failed, probably leading to the usual downgrade to in-clear
101 JH/21 Fix TLSA lookups. Previously dns_again_means_nonexist would affect
102 SERVFAIL results, which breaks the downgrade resistance of DANE. Change
103 to not checking that list for these lookups.
105 JH/22 Bug 2434: Add connection-elapsed "D=" element to more connection
108 JH/23 Fix crash in string expansions. Previously, if an empty variable was
109 immediately followed by an expansion operator, a null-indirection read
110 was done, killing the process.
112 JH/24 Bug 2997: When built with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO, bounce messages can
113 include an SMTP response string which is longer than that supported
114 by the delivering transport. Alleviate by wrapping such lines before
117 JH/25 Bug 2827: Restrict size of References: header in bounce messages to 998
118 chars (RFC limit). Previously a limit of 12 items was made, which with
119 a not-impossible References: in the message being bounced could still
120 be over-large and get stopped in the transport.
122 JH/26 For a ${readsocket } in TLS mode, send a TLS Close Alert before the TCP
123 close. Previously a bare socket close was done.
129 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
130 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
131 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
134 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
135 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
137 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
138 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
139 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
140 not be modified by local-scan code.
142 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
143 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
145 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
146 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
149 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
150 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
152 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
153 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
156 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
157 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
158 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
160 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
161 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
162 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
164 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
165 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
166 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
167 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
168 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
169 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
170 Assorted crashes happen.
172 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
173 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
174 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
177 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
178 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
179 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
180 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
182 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
183 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
184 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
187 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
189 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
190 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
193 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
194 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
195 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
197 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
198 result of expansion operators and items.
200 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
201 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
202 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
203 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
205 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
207 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
208 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
209 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
210 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
213 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
214 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
216 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
217 Previously only the domain part was returned.
219 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
220 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
221 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
222 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
224 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
225 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
226 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
227 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
229 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
230 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
231 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
232 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
233 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
236 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
237 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
238 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
240 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
241 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
242 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
243 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
245 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
246 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
247 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
248 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
250 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
251 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
252 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
253 Previously only the server IP was used.
255 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
256 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
257 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
258 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
260 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
261 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
262 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
264 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
265 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
266 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
269 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
270 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
272 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
273 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
279 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
280 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
281 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
283 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
284 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
285 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
286 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
288 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
289 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
290 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
291 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
292 so could be handling tainted values.
294 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
295 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
296 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
298 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
299 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
300 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
303 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
304 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
305 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
306 to align better with RFC 6125.
308 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
309 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
310 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
311 by adding a release action in that path.
313 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
314 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
315 dynamically-created buffers.
317 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
318 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
319 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
320 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
322 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
323 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
324 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
325 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
327 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
328 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
329 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
331 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
332 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
333 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
334 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
336 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
337 excluded, not matching the documentation.
339 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
340 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
342 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
343 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
344 this was a coding error.
346 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
347 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
348 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
349 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
350 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
351 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
352 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
354 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
355 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
356 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
357 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
359 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
360 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
361 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
362 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
363 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
365 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
366 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
369 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
370 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
371 domain-parking registrar.
373 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
374 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
375 after removing the newline.
377 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
378 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
379 option set, which was previously used.
381 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
384 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
385 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
386 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
387 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
389 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
390 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
391 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
392 exim.dev.20160529.3).
394 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
395 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
396 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
398 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
399 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
400 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
403 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
404 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
405 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
407 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
408 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
409 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
410 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
413 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
414 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
415 there, handle PRX and TFO.
417 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
418 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
419 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
420 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
421 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
423 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
424 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
425 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
426 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
429 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
430 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
432 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
435 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
436 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
437 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
438 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
439 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
441 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
443 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
444 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
445 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
446 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
447 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
448 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
450 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
451 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
453 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
454 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
455 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
457 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
458 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
461 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
462 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
463 of a new variable: $auth4.
465 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
466 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
467 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
468 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
469 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
471 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
472 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
473 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
474 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
476 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
477 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
478 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
480 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
481 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
482 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
483 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
486 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
487 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
488 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
491 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
492 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
493 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
494 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
496 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
497 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
499 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
500 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
501 looked as if if might be one.
503 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
504 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
505 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
506 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
507 messages can show the proxy information.
509 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
510 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
511 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
512 "queue_time_exclusive".
514 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
515 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
516 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
518 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
519 making it unusable in complex expressions.
521 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
522 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
525 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
527 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
529 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
531 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
532 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
533 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
534 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
536 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
537 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
539 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
540 better. Reported by Qualys.
542 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
543 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
546 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
548 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
551 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
553 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
554 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
555 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
556 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
558 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
559 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
561 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
562 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
563 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
564 mode until after various protocol state checks.
565 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
567 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
569 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
570 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
572 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
575 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
576 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
577 executed child processes (if any).
579 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
582 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
583 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
584 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
585 been reported on other platforms.
587 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
589 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
590 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
591 Not supported on Solaris 10.
593 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
594 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
595 since fakereject was originally introduced.
597 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
598 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
600 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
601 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
602 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
605 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
606 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
607 which only permit IP addresses.
613 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
614 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
615 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
617 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
619 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
620 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
623 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
624 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
625 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
627 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
629 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
631 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
632 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
633 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
635 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
636 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
637 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
639 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
640 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
642 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
643 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
646 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
647 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
648 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
649 should both provide the file and set the option.
650 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
652 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
653 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
655 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
656 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
657 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
658 Authentication-Results: header.
660 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
661 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
662 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
663 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
665 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
666 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
667 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
668 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
669 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
670 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
671 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
673 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
674 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
675 copies while it is still usable.
677 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
678 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
679 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
681 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
682 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
684 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
685 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
686 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
687 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
689 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
690 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
691 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
694 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
695 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
696 - the pipe transport command
697 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
698 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
700 - paths used by single-key lookups
701 Previously this was permitted.
703 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
704 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
705 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
706 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
708 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
709 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
710 support larger malloc requests.
712 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
713 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
714 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
715 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
717 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
718 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
719 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
720 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
723 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
724 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
725 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
726 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
727 data being length-specified.
729 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
730 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
731 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
732 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
734 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
735 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
736 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
737 not being properly tracked.
739 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
740 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
741 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
742 minute could be seen.
744 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
745 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
746 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
748 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
749 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
751 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
752 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
755 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
757 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
758 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
760 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
761 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
762 filesystem as sufficient validation.
764 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
765 argument is supplied.
767 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
768 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
769 access under Exim's current working directory.
771 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
772 Previously no event was raised.
774 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
775 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
776 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
779 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
780 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
781 the size of the signature hash.
783 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
784 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
786 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
787 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
788 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
789 dropped between messages.
791 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
792 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
793 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
794 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
796 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
797 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
798 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
799 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
800 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
801 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
802 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
803 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
804 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
806 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
807 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
808 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
810 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
811 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
818 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
819 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
821 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
822 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
825 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
828 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
830 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
832 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
833 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
835 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
836 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
837 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
838 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
839 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
840 suitably configured).
842 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
843 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
845 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
846 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
849 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
850 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
852 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
853 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
854 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
855 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
858 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
859 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
860 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
862 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
865 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
866 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
868 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
869 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
870 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
871 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
874 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
875 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
876 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
877 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
880 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
881 shared (NFS) environment.
883 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
884 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
887 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
888 on some platforms for bit 31.
890 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
891 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
892 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
893 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
894 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
895 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
896 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
897 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
899 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
901 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
902 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
904 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
905 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
908 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
909 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
912 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
913 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
914 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
917 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
918 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
919 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
921 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
922 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
923 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
924 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
925 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
927 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
930 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
931 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
932 be requested on all coneections.
934 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
935 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
937 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
939 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
940 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
941 one for these; the option was ignored.
943 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
944 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
945 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
946 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
948 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
949 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
950 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
953 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
954 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
955 error ignored was made.
957 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
959 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
960 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
961 values, to catch one form of exploit.
963 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
964 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
965 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
967 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
968 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
971 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
972 them in our smtp response.
974 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
975 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
976 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
977 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
978 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
980 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
981 link count into consideration.
983 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
984 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
986 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
987 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
988 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
991 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
993 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
995 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
997 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
998 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
999 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
1000 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
1002 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
1004 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
1005 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
1008 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
1009 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
1010 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
1012 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
1013 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
1014 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
1016 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
1017 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
1018 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
1019 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
1020 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
1021 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
1022 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
1023 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
1025 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
1026 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
1027 resulted in an indefinite loop.
1029 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
1030 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
1031 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
1033 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
1034 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1041 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1042 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1044 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1045 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1047 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1048 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1049 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1051 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1052 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1053 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1055 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1056 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1057 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1058 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1059 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1062 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1063 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1065 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1066 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1067 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1068 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1069 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1070 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1071 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1073 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1074 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1076 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1079 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1080 Previously this would segfault.
1082 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1085 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1086 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1087 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1088 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1089 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1090 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1092 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1094 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1095 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1096 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1097 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1099 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1101 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1102 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1103 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1104 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1106 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1108 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1110 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1111 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1112 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1114 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1115 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1116 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1118 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1120 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1121 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1122 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1123 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1125 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1126 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1127 promised '?' replacement.
1129 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1131 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1132 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1133 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1134 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1135 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1137 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1138 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1139 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1141 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1142 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1143 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1145 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1146 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1147 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1149 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1150 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1151 hope that is portable enough.
1153 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1154 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1155 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1156 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1158 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1159 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1160 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1162 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1163 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1164 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1165 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1167 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1168 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1170 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1171 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1172 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1173 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1175 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1176 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1177 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1179 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1180 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1181 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1182 the previous G, M, k.
1184 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1185 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1188 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1189 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1190 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1191 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1193 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1194 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1196 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1197 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1198 off past the nul-terimation.
1200 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1201 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1202 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1203 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1204 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1206 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1208 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1209 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1210 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1213 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1214 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1216 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1217 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1218 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1220 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1221 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1222 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1224 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1225 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1231 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1232 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1233 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1234 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1235 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1236 be defined in redis_servers.
1238 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1239 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1241 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1242 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1243 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1244 extant use locations.
1246 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1247 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1249 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1250 Previously only the last row was returned.
1252 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1253 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1254 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1255 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1258 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1259 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1260 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1261 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1262 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1263 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1264 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1265 Main pool for expansions.
1266 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1267 active in the testsuite.
1268 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1270 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1271 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1272 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1273 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1276 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1277 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1280 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1281 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1282 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1284 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1285 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1286 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1288 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1289 rows affected is given instead).
1291 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1292 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1294 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1295 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1296 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1297 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1298 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1300 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1301 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1302 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1304 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1305 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1306 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1307 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1310 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1311 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1312 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1315 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1317 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1318 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1320 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1321 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1322 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1324 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1325 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1326 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1329 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1330 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1332 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1333 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1334 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1336 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1337 for the build is renamed.
1339 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1340 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1341 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1343 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1344 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1345 result replacing the original.
1347 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1348 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1349 and the resources needed to be freed.
1351 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1353 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1356 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1357 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1358 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1359 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1361 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1362 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1364 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1365 newer versions of the scanner.
1367 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1368 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1369 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1370 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1371 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1372 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1373 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1375 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1376 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1377 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1378 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1379 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1380 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1381 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1382 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1383 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1384 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1386 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1387 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1389 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1391 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1392 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1394 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1395 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1397 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1398 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1399 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1401 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1402 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1403 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1404 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1406 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1407 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1410 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1411 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1413 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1414 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1415 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1416 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1417 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1419 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1420 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1423 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1424 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1426 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1429 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1430 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1431 "bare" representation.
1433 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1434 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1435 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1436 corrupted the output.
1442 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1443 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1444 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1445 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1447 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1448 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1450 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1451 This permits better logging.
1453 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1454 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1455 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1456 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1457 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1458 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1460 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1461 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1464 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1465 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1466 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1468 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1469 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1471 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1472 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1473 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1474 client, there is no benefit for these.
1475 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1476 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1477 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1480 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1481 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1483 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1484 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1485 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1487 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1488 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1490 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1491 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1492 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1493 signature and again for transmission.
1495 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1496 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1497 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1499 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1500 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1501 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1502 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1503 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1504 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1505 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1507 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1508 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1509 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1510 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1512 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1513 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1514 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1515 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1516 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1517 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1520 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1521 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1522 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1523 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1526 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1527 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1528 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1529 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1532 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1533 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1536 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1537 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1538 banner-time rejection.
1540 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1543 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1544 is the name of a transport.
1547 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1549 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1550 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1552 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1553 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1554 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1557 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1558 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1559 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1560 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1562 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1563 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1564 initial verify call returned a defer.
1566 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1567 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1569 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1570 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1572 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1573 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1575 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1576 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1578 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1579 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1582 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1583 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1585 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1586 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1587 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1589 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1590 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1591 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1592 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1594 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1595 and confused the parent.
1597 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1598 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1600 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1603 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1604 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1605 out-of-order delivery.
1607 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1608 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1609 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1612 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1613 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1616 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1617 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1618 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1620 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1621 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1622 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1623 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1624 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1625 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1627 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1628 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1629 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1631 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1632 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1633 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1635 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1636 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1637 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1638 though a different problem.
1644 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1645 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1647 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1649 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1650 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1652 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1653 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1655 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1656 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1657 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1658 before acknowledging the chunk.
1660 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1661 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1662 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1664 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1665 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1666 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1669 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1670 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1671 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1673 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1674 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1676 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1677 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1678 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1679 body hash calculated value.
1681 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1682 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1683 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1685 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1687 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1688 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1690 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1691 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1692 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1694 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1695 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1696 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1697 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1698 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1699 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1701 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1702 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1703 past that check, despite the cost.
1705 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1706 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1707 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1709 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1710 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1711 TLS library to consume.
1713 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1715 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1717 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1718 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1719 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1720 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1721 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1722 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1723 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1725 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1727 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1729 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1730 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1731 should be warning-free.
1733 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1735 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1736 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1738 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1739 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1740 general solution here.
1742 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1743 already-broken messages in the queue.
1745 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1747 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1753 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1754 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1756 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1757 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1758 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1760 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1761 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1762 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1763 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1764 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1765 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1766 if one fails this test.
1767 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1768 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1770 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1771 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1773 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1774 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1776 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1777 in rewrites and routers.
1779 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1780 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1782 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1783 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1785 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1787 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1790 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1791 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1792 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1793 connection after a verify cache hit.
1794 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1796 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1797 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1799 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1800 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1801 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1802 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1803 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1805 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1806 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1808 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1809 Previously they were not counted.
1811 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1812 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1813 that needed the lookup.
1815 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1816 distinguished as "(=".
1818 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1819 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1821 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1823 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1824 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1826 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1827 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1829 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1830 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1833 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1834 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1835 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1836 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1838 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1840 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1841 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1842 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1844 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1845 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1846 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1849 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1850 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1851 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1854 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1855 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1856 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1858 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1859 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1862 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1864 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1865 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1867 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1868 are not in the system include path.
1870 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1871 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1872 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1873 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1875 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1876 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1877 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1879 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1881 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1882 an incoming connection.
1884 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1887 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1888 fallback to "prime256v1".
1890 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1891 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1897 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1898 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1899 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1900 client dropping the TLS connection.
1902 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1903 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1905 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1906 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1907 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1908 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1911 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1912 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1913 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1914 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1915 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1916 check on the next write.
1918 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1919 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1920 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1921 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1922 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1924 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1925 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1927 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1928 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1929 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1931 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1932 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1933 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1934 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1936 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1937 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1939 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1940 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1942 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1943 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1944 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1947 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1949 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1951 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1953 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1954 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1956 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1957 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1959 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1961 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1962 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1964 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1966 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1967 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1969 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1971 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1972 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1973 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1974 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1975 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1976 they will retry in-clear.
1977 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1978 at installation time.
1980 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1981 with the $config_file variable.
1983 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1984 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1985 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1986 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1987 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1989 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1990 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1991 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1992 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1993 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1995 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1997 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1998 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1999 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
2000 list order is no longer honoured.
2002 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
2003 for DKIM processing.
2005 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2006 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
2008 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2009 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
2010 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
2011 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
2013 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
2014 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
2016 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
2017 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
2019 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
2020 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
2022 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
2024 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
2025 cached by the daemon.
2027 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2028 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
2030 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
2031 keys are given for lookup.
2033 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
2034 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
2035 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2036 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2038 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2039 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2040 server-side so match that on older versions.
2042 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2043 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2044 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2046 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2047 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2049 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2050 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2051 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2052 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2053 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2054 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2055 initial truncated version.
2057 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2059 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2061 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2062 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2064 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2066 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2068 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2069 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2072 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2073 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2076 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2077 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2079 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2080 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2083 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2084 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2085 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2087 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2088 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2089 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2090 extraction. Accept either.
2096 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2099 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2101 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2104 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2105 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2106 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2107 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2109 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2110 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2111 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2113 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2114 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2115 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2118 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2121 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2122 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2123 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2124 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2125 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2127 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2128 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2129 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2131 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2133 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2134 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2136 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2137 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2139 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2142 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2143 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2145 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2146 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2147 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2149 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2150 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2151 specify a port-range.
2153 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2154 timeout value per server.
2156 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2157 now have the list separator specified.
2159 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2162 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2165 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2167 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2168 rather than the verbs used.
2170 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2171 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2173 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2175 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2176 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2178 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2179 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2181 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2182 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2184 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2186 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2188 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2189 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2190 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2191 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2193 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2195 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2196 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2198 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2199 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2201 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2203 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2205 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2207 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2208 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2210 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2211 added for tls authenticator.
2213 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2219 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2220 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2221 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2222 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2223 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2224 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2225 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2227 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2228 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2229 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2230 function when detected.
2232 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2233 cause callback expansion.
2235 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2236 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2237 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2238 instead of bool when processing it.
2240 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2241 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2243 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2245 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2247 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2249 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2250 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2252 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2253 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2254 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2255 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2256 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2257 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2259 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2260 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2263 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2264 version 3.3.6 or later.
2266 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2267 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2268 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2269 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2270 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2271 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2274 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2275 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2277 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2278 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2279 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2282 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2283 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2284 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2286 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2287 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2289 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2290 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2293 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2295 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2296 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2298 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2299 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2302 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2304 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2307 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2308 output list separator was used.
2313 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2314 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2317 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2318 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2320 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2322 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2323 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2329 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2331 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2332 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2333 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2334 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2335 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2336 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2338 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2339 utilities have not been installed.
2341 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2342 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2344 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2345 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2347 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2348 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2349 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2350 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2352 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2354 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2355 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2357 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2360 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2362 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2363 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2364 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2366 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2367 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2368 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2369 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2370 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2371 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2373 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2375 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2376 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2378 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2381 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2383 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2385 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2386 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2388 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2389 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2391 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2393 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2395 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2396 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2398 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2399 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2400 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2402 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2403 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2404 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2407 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2409 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2410 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2413 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2414 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2417 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2418 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2420 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2421 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2423 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2425 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2426 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2427 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2429 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2430 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2432 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2433 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2436 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2437 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2438 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2440 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2442 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2443 Christian Aistleitner.
2445 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2447 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2448 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2450 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2451 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2453 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2454 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2456 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2457 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2459 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2460 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2462 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2463 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2464 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2466 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2468 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2469 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2472 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2474 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2475 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2482 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2484 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2485 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2487 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2490 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2491 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2494 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2496 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2497 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2498 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2499 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2500 using channel bindings instead).
2502 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2503 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2504 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2505 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2506 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2509 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2511 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2513 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2514 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2516 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2517 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2518 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2520 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2522 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2524 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2525 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2527 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2529 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2531 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2533 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2534 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2536 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2538 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2539 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2542 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2543 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2545 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2546 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2549 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2551 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2553 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2554 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2556 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2559 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2560 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2562 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2563 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2565 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2567 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2569 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2572 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2575 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2577 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2578 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2579 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2580 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2582 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2584 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2585 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2586 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2587 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2590 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2591 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2592 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2594 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2595 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2596 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2597 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2599 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2600 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2601 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2602 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2603 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2604 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2605 delivery, as in LMTP.
2607 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2608 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2610 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2612 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2616 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2617 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2618 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2619 username as equal to the username.
2621 This change corrects that bug.
2623 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2624 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2625 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2627 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2629 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2630 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2631 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2632 NULL dereference and crash.
2634 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2636 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2637 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2638 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2640 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2642 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2643 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2644 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2645 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2646 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2647 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2648 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2649 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2650 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2651 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2652 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2654 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2655 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2657 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2658 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2661 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2662 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2663 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2664 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2665 an empty string is now equivalent.
2667 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2668 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2669 not performing validation itself.
2671 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2672 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2674 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2677 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2679 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2680 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2681 other false fix of the same issue.
2682 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2685 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2686 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2688 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2689 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2690 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2692 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2693 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2694 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2696 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2698 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2700 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2701 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2703 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2706 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2707 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2708 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2709 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2710 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2712 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2713 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2715 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2716 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2719 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2720 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2721 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2722 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2724 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2726 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2727 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2728 from multiple comments on this bug.
2730 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2732 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2733 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2736 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2737 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2739 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2740 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2746 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2748 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2754 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2755 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2756 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2758 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2760 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2763 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2765 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2767 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2769 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2770 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2772 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2773 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2775 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2776 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2778 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2779 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2780 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2782 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2784 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2785 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2787 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2789 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2791 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2792 non-compliant senders.
2793 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2795 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2796 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2797 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2799 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2800 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2801 in spool file corruption.
2803 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2804 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2805 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2808 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2809 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2810 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2812 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2813 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2815 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2817 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2819 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2821 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2822 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2823 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2825 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2826 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2827 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2828 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2830 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2831 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2833 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2834 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2835 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2836 resolver implementation change.
2838 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2839 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2841 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2843 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2845 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2846 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2848 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2849 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2851 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2852 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2854 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2855 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2856 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2857 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2858 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2860 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2862 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2863 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2864 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2866 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2868 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2869 read-only, out of scope).
2870 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2872 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2873 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2874 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2875 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2877 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2879 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2880 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2881 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2882 real issues in debug logging.
2884 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2885 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2887 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2888 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2889 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2891 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2892 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2893 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2896 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2897 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2899 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2900 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2901 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2902 needs to override this, it can.
2904 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2905 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2906 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2908 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2909 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2910 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2911 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2913 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2919 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2920 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2922 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2924 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2927 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2928 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2930 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2931 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2932 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2934 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2935 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2936 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2937 not safe for signals.
2939 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2940 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2941 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2942 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2945 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2947 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2948 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2949 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2950 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2951 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2953 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2954 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2955 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2956 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2957 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2958 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2960 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2961 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2962 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2963 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2965 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2966 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2967 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2968 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2970 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2971 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2972 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2973 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2974 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2975 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2976 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2977 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2978 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2980 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2981 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2982 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2983 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2985 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2986 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2987 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2988 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2989 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2990 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2991 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2992 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2993 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2994 details in the main documentation.
2996 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2998 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
3000 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
3001 repository when doing development or release builds.
3003 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
3004 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
3006 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
3007 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
3010 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
3012 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
3013 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
3015 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
3016 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3018 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
3019 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3021 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
3022 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
3024 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
3025 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3027 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
3029 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
3032 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
3033 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
3034 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3036 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3038 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3040 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3041 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3047 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3049 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3050 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3052 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3054 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3056 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3059 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3060 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3062 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3063 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3065 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3066 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3068 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3071 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3072 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3074 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3075 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3076 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3077 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3079 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3080 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3086 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3089 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3090 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3091 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3093 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3094 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3096 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3097 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3098 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3100 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3101 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3103 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3104 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3106 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3107 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3109 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3110 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3112 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3113 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3115 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3118 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3119 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3121 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3122 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3124 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3125 SQL string expansion failure details.
3126 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3128 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3129 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3131 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3132 extern declarations in function scope.
3133 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3135 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3136 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3137 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3140 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3141 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3143 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3144 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3146 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3147 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3149 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3150 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3152 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3153 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3156 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3158 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3160 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3161 Patch by Simon Arlott
3163 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3164 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3170 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3171 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3173 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3174 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3176 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3178 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3179 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3180 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3182 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3183 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3184 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3186 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3187 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3188 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3189 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3191 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3192 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3193 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3194 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3196 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3197 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3198 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3201 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3204 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3205 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3206 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3207 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3208 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3214 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3215 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3216 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3218 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3219 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3221 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3223 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3225 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3227 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3229 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3231 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3232 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3233 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3234 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3236 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3237 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3238 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3239 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3240 more caution in buffer sizes.
3242 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3244 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3246 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3248 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3250 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3252 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3254 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3256 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3257 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3258 ignore trailing whitespace.
3260 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3262 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3265 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3266 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3268 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3269 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3270 Notification from John Horne.
3272 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3275 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3276 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3279 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3282 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3283 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3284 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3286 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3287 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3288 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3291 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3292 option (effectively making it always true).
3294 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3295 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3297 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3298 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3300 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3301 run-time user, instead of root.
3303 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3304 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3306 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3307 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3310 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3311 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3312 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3314 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3316 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3322 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3323 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3326 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3327 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3330 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3331 Patch from Alain Williams
3333 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3335 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3336 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3338 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3339 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3341 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3343 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3345 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3346 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3348 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3350 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3352 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3353 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3354 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3356 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3357 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3359 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3360 Patch by Simon Arlott
3362 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3363 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3369 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3371 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3373 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3375 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3377 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3383 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3384 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3386 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3387 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3390 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3391 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3392 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3394 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3395 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3397 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3398 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3399 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3400 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3402 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3403 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3404 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3406 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3408 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3410 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3411 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3413 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3415 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3416 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3417 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3418 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3420 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3421 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3423 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3425 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3427 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3428 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3430 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3431 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3433 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3434 that they are available at delivery time.
3436 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3438 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3439 incoming_port log selectors.
3441 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3442 setting expands to an empty string.
3444 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3445 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3447 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3448 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3450 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3451 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3453 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3454 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3456 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3457 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3459 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3460 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3462 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3464 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3465 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3467 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3468 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3470 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3472 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3473 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3475 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3477 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3479 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3482 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3483 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3485 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3486 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3488 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3489 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3491 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3492 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3494 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3495 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3497 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3498 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3500 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3501 plus update to original patch.
3503 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3505 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3506 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3508 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3510 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3512 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3514 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3516 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3517 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3519 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3520 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3522 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3523 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3525 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3526 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3528 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3530 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3532 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3534 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3540 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3541 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3542 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3544 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3545 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3546 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3547 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3548 build errors in sieve.c.
3550 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3551 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3552 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3554 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3556 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3558 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3560 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3566 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3568 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3569 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3570 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3571 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3572 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3573 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3574 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3575 for iplsearch lookups.
3577 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3578 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3579 previously such lookups could never work.
3581 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3582 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3583 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3585 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3588 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3589 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3590 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3591 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3592 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3593 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3595 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3596 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3598 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3599 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3600 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3601 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3602 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3603 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3605 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3608 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3610 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3611 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3614 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3615 by clients under certain conditions.
3617 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3618 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3620 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3622 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3623 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3625 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3627 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3629 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3631 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3632 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3634 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3636 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3637 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3639 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3641 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3643 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3644 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3645 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3646 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3648 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3649 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3650 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3652 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3653 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3655 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3657 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3659 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3661 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3662 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3663 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3669 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3670 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3673 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3674 issue a MAIL command.
3676 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3678 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3680 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3681 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3682 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3683 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3684 item. This has been fixed.
3686 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3687 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3689 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3690 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3692 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3693 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3694 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3696 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3698 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3699 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3700 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3701 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3702 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3704 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3705 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3706 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3708 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3709 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3710 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3711 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3713 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3715 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3717 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3718 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3719 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3720 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3721 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3723 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3725 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3726 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3727 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3730 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3732 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3734 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3736 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3738 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3740 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3741 no_callout_flush is set.
3743 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3744 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3745 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3748 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3750 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3751 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3752 other ACL rejections are.
3754 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3755 with slight modification.
3757 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3758 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3760 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3761 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3764 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3765 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3767 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3769 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3770 expansion side effects.
3772 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3773 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3774 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3777 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3778 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3779 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3781 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3782 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3783 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3784 were accidentally chopped off.
3786 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3787 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3788 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3789 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3790 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3791 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3792 pipelining has not been advertised.
3794 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3796 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3797 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3798 This has been fixed.
3800 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3801 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3802 reported on Solaris.
3804 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3805 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3806 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3807 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3808 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3809 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3810 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3812 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3815 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3817 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3819 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3820 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3821 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3822 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3823 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3824 criteria to be more general.
3826 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3827 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3828 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3829 host_all_ignored option.
3831 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3832 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3833 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3834 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3835 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3836 is what is supposed to happen).
3838 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3839 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3840 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3841 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3842 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3845 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3846 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3847 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3848 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3849 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3850 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3853 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3855 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3856 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3858 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3859 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3861 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3863 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3865 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3866 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3867 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3868 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3869 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3870 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3871 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3872 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3873 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3874 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3875 least in a lot of common cases.
3877 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3878 advertised in response to EHLO.
3884 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3885 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3887 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3888 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3890 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3891 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3892 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3894 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3895 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3896 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3897 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3898 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3904 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3905 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3908 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3909 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3910 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3912 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3913 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3914 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3915 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3916 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3917 rather than extend the field.
3923 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3924 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3925 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3926 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3929 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3930 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3931 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3933 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3934 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3935 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3937 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3938 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3939 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3942 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3943 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3944 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3945 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3946 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3947 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3948 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3949 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3950 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3951 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3952 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3954 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3957 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3958 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3959 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3960 ignores EPIPE as well.
3962 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3963 (quoted-printable decoding).
3965 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3966 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3968 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3970 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3972 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3974 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3975 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3977 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3980 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3981 miscellaneous code fixes
3983 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3986 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3987 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3988 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3989 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3990 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3991 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3992 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3993 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3995 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3996 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3997 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3998 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
4000 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
4001 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
4002 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
4003 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
4004 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
4005 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
4006 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
4007 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
4008 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
4010 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
4013 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
4014 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
4015 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
4016 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
4017 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
4018 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
4019 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
4020 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
4022 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
4023 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
4026 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
4027 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
4028 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
4029 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
4030 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
4031 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
4032 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
4033 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
4034 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
4035 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4036 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4037 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4038 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4040 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4041 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4042 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4043 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4044 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4045 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4046 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4048 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4049 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4050 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4051 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4052 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4053 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4054 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4055 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4056 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4057 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4059 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4060 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4061 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4062 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4063 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4065 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4066 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4067 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4068 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4069 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4070 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4071 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4073 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4074 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4075 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4076 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4077 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4078 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4081 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4082 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4083 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4086 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4087 if any retry times were supplied.
4089 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4090 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4091 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4093 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4095 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4097 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4098 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4099 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4100 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4101 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4102 before) are ignored.
4104 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4105 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4107 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4108 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4109 committing the later change.]
4111 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4112 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4113 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4114 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4115 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4116 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4117 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4118 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4119 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4121 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4122 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4123 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4124 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4125 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4126 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4127 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4128 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4129 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4131 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4132 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4133 hammering the server.
4135 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4136 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4138 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4140 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4141 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4142 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4144 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4145 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4146 one case where this was not true.
4148 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4149 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4150 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4151 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4154 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4155 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4156 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4157 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4158 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4159 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4160 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4161 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4162 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4165 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4166 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4167 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4168 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4170 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4171 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4173 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4174 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4175 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4177 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4179 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4181 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4183 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4184 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4185 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4186 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4188 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4189 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4191 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4192 be meaningful with "accept".
4194 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4195 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4197 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4198 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4199 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4201 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4202 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4203 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4204 there is data to show.
4205 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4207 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4208 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4209 as well as the number of messages.
4211 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4212 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4213 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4215 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4216 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4217 have a flag are now skipped.
4219 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4220 Added the -emptyok flag.
4222 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4223 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4225 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4226 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4227 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4229 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4232 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4233 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4235 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4237 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4238 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4240 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4242 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4243 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4244 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4245 contravention of the specifications.
4247 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4248 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4249 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4251 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4252 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4253 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4255 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4257 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4258 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4259 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4260 some point in the past.
4262 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4263 transport during callout processing was broken.
4265 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4266 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4268 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4269 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4271 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4272 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4274 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4280 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4281 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4283 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4284 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4285 there is data to show.
4286 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4288 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4289 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4291 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4292 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4294 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4295 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4297 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4298 submissions from trusted users.
4300 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4301 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4303 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4304 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4305 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4306 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4307 there is now a framework to start from.
4309 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4310 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4311 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4313 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4315 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4317 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4319 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4320 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4321 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4323 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4326 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4327 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4328 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4330 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4331 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4332 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4335 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4336 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4337 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4338 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4339 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4341 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4342 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4344 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4346 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4347 operations in malware.c.
4349 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4352 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4353 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4354 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4357 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4358 statements to "add_header".
4360 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4361 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4363 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4364 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4367 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4371 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4372 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4373 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4376 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4377 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4379 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4380 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4382 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4383 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4384 any possible encoding problems.
4386 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4387 but not after initializing Perl.
4389 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4390 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4391 apparently, which is not desirable.
4393 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4396 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4399 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4401 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4402 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4403 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4404 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4406 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4407 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4408 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4410 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4411 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4412 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4415 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4416 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4417 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4418 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4419 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4425 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4426 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4428 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4431 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4432 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4433 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4434 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4435 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4436 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4437 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4438 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4441 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4443 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4444 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4445 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4447 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4448 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4449 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4452 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4453 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4455 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4456 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4457 option (which defaults to 0600).
4459 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4461 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4462 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4463 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4464 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4465 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4466 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4467 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4469 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4475 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4476 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4477 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4478 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4479 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4480 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4483 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4484 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4486 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4488 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4489 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4490 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4491 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4492 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4495 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4496 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4498 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4499 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4500 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4501 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4502 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4504 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4505 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4506 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4507 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4509 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4510 be the same on different OS.
4512 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4515 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4516 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4518 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4521 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4522 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4523 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4524 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4525 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4526 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4529 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4530 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4531 when Exim was called.
4533 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4534 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4536 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4537 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4538 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4539 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4541 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4542 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4543 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4544 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4547 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4548 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4549 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4551 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4552 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4553 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4555 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4558 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4559 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4560 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4561 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4562 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4563 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4564 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4565 values from the SRV records were lost.
4567 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4568 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4569 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4571 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4572 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4573 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4575 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4576 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4577 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4578 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4579 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4580 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4581 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4582 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4583 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4584 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4586 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4587 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4588 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4590 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4591 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4593 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4594 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4595 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4596 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4599 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4600 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4601 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4603 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4604 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4605 PH/23 above applies.
4607 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4608 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4609 (for which there is an explicit test).
4611 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4613 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4614 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4615 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4616 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4617 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4619 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4620 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4621 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4622 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4624 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4625 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4626 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4628 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4630 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4632 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4633 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4634 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4636 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4637 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4638 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4639 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4640 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4642 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4643 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4644 the message gets confusing).
4646 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4647 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4648 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4649 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4651 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4652 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4653 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4654 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4657 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4658 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4659 the different processes.
4661 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4663 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4665 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4666 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4668 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4669 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4671 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4672 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4673 messages matching specified criteria.
4675 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4677 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4678 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4680 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4681 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4682 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4683 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4684 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4685 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4686 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4687 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4688 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4689 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4691 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4692 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4693 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4695 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4697 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4698 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4699 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4700 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4701 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4702 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4703 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4706 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4707 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4709 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4711 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4713 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4715 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4716 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4717 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4718 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4719 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4720 size of the count of files.
4722 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4724 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4727 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4728 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4729 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4730 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4732 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4733 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4734 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4736 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4737 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4738 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4739 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4740 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4742 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4743 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4745 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4746 will now be deprecated.
4748 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4750 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4751 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4752 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4754 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4755 with very large, slow to parse queues
4757 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4759 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4761 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4762 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4763 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4766 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4767 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4768 Sieve code now uses this.
4770 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4771 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4773 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4774 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4776 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4778 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4779 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4780 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4781 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4782 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4784 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4785 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4786 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4787 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4789 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4791 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4793 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4794 is preferred over IPv4.
4796 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4797 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4798 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4799 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4800 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4801 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4802 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4804 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4805 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4806 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4808 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4810 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4811 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4812 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4813 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4814 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4815 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4816 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4817 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4818 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4819 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4820 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4822 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4823 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4824 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4830 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4832 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4833 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4835 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4836 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4837 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4839 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4841 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4844 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4847 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4848 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4849 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4852 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4853 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4855 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4856 inside the third argument.
4858 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4859 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4862 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4863 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4865 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4866 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4868 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4870 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4871 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4874 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4876 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4877 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4878 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4879 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4880 identical. For example:
4882 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4884 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4885 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4886 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4888 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4889 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4890 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4891 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4893 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4894 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4895 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4898 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4900 o fixes some comments
4901 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4902 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4903 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4904 and documents the missing references header update
4908 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4909 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4912 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4913 Electronic Mail") by including:
4915 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4917 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4918 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4919 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4920 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4921 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4923 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4925 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4927 The auto-replied keyword:
4929 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4930 message by an automatic process,
4932 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4934 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4935 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4937 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4938 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4941 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4942 to the default Received: header definition.
4944 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4946 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4947 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4948 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4950 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4951 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4952 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4954 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4955 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4956 and treats the condition as false.
4958 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4960 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4961 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4962 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4963 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4964 not changing the active code.
4966 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4967 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4969 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4970 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4972 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4975 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4976 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4977 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4978 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4979 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4980 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4981 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4982 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4983 the text comparison.
4985 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4986 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4987 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4988 The same fix has been applied.
4994 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4995 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4998 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4999 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
5001 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
5003 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
5004 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
5005 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
5006 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
5007 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
5009 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
5010 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
5011 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
5012 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
5015 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
5023 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
5024 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
5026 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
5028 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
5030 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
5031 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
5032 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
5034 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
5035 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5036 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5038 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5039 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5042 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5043 ${stat: expansion item.
5045 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5046 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5048 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5049 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5052 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5054 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5057 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5058 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5060 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5062 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5063 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5064 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5065 the end of the subprocess.
5067 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5068 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5069 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5070 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5071 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5073 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5075 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5077 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5078 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5080 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5082 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5084 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5085 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5088 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5090 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5091 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5092 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5094 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5095 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5097 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5098 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5100 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5101 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5103 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5104 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5106 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5107 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5108 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5109 contributed by a Radius user.
5111 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5112 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5114 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5115 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5117 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5120 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5121 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5124 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5125 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5126 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5127 header lines when this was not necessary.
5129 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5131 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5132 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5133 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5136 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5139 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5140 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5141 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5142 return code was incorrect.
5144 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5146 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5148 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5150 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5152 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5153 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5154 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5155 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5156 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5159 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5161 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5162 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5163 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5164 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5165 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5166 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5167 which is clearly wrong.
5169 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5171 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5172 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5173 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5176 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5177 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5179 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5181 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5182 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5184 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5185 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5187 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5188 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5190 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5191 recipients, not senders.
5193 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5194 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5196 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5198 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5200 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5201 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5202 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5203 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5205 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5207 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5208 clock is set back in time.
5210 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5211 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5213 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5214 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5216 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5217 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5220 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5221 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5224 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5227 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5229 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5230 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5231 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5233 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5234 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5235 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5236 helo verification defer as a failure.
5238 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5239 actual error message.
5245 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5247 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5248 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5249 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5250 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5252 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5254 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5255 can still be requested.
5257 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5258 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5259 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5260 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5262 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5263 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5264 circumstances, but probably never did.
5266 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5267 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5268 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5271 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5273 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5274 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5276 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5278 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5280 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5281 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5282 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5283 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5284 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5285 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5287 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5288 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5289 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5290 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5291 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5292 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5294 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5295 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5297 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5298 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5300 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5301 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5303 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5305 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5307 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5309 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5311 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5313 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5315 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5317 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5318 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5319 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5321 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5322 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5323 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5324 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5326 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5327 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5328 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5330 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5331 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5332 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5333 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5335 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5336 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5339 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5340 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5341 should work with maildirs and everything.
5343 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5344 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5346 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5349 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5350 function for BDB 4.3.
5352 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5354 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5355 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5358 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5359 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5360 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5361 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5362 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5363 formatting function string_vformat().
5365 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5366 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5367 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5368 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5369 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5370 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5371 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5372 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5374 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5375 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5378 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5379 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5381 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5382 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5383 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5384 test. It is now used for both.
5386 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5387 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5388 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5389 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5390 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5391 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5393 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5394 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5395 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5398 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5399 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5400 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5402 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5403 experimental DomainKeys support:
5405 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5406 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5407 the control was given.
5409 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5411 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5413 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5415 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5416 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5417 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5420 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5421 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5422 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5423 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5424 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5425 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5428 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5429 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5430 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5431 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5432 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5433 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5435 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5436 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5437 do -d+all out of habit.
5439 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5440 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5443 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5444 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5445 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5446 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5447 record types that Exim uses.
5449 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5450 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5451 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5452 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5453 non-existent file that was broken.
5455 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5456 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5458 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5459 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5460 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5462 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5464 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5465 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5466 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5467 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5468 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5471 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5472 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5473 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5474 at a slight CPU cost.
5476 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5477 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5479 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5482 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5484 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5485 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5491 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5492 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5494 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5496 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5498 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5499 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5501 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5502 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5503 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5504 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5505 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5506 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5509 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5510 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5511 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5512 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5515 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5516 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5517 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5518 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5519 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5520 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5521 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5524 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5525 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5527 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5528 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5529 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5530 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5531 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5532 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5534 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5535 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5536 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5537 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5539 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5542 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5543 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5545 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5546 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5547 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5548 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5551 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5553 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5554 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5556 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5557 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5558 to what was transported.)
5560 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5562 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5563 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5564 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5565 spamd_address settings.
5567 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5568 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5569 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5570 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5571 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5573 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5575 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5576 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5577 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5578 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5579 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5581 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5582 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5584 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5585 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5586 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5587 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5588 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5589 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5590 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5593 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5594 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5595 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5596 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5597 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5598 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5599 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5602 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5604 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5605 driver and ACL definitions.
5607 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5608 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5610 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5611 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5612 understands it better than I do:
5614 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5615 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5617 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5618 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5619 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5620 => three warnings about OTP not working
5621 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5623 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5624 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5625 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5626 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5628 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5629 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5631 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5632 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5633 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5635 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5636 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5639 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5640 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5643 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5644 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5645 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5647 warn !verify = sender
5648 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5650 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5651 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5653 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5655 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5656 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5658 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5659 nomenclature these days.)
5661 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5662 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5664 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5665 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5666 . First host does not offer TLS;
5667 . First host accepts first address;
5668 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5669 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5670 . Second host accepts second address.
5671 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5672 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5675 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5676 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5677 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5678 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5679 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5681 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5682 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5684 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5685 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5687 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5688 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5689 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5691 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5692 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5695 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5697 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5698 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5699 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5700 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5701 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5702 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5703 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5705 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5706 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5707 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5708 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5709 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5711 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5712 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5715 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5716 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5717 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5718 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5719 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5720 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5722 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5724 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5725 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5726 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5727 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5728 printable escape sequences.
5730 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5731 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5734 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5735 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5738 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5739 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5740 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5741 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5742 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5744 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5745 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5746 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5748 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5750 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5751 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5754 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5755 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5756 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5757 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5758 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5759 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5760 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5761 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5762 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5765 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5766 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5767 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5768 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5772 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5773 ----------------------------------------
5775 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5776 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5777 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5778 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5779 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5780 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5783 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5784 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5785 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5786 historical information.
5792 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5794 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5795 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5797 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5798 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5801 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5802 filter fails to execute.
5804 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5805 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5806 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5807 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5808 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5810 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5812 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5813 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5814 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5815 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5817 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5818 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5819 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5820 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5821 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5823 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5825 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5827 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5828 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5829 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5830 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5832 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5833 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5834 sender verification.
5836 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5837 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5839 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5841 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5844 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5845 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5847 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5848 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5850 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5851 information about exactly what failed.
5853 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5855 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5856 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5857 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5859 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5860 It is now set to "smtps".
5862 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5863 ignore_target_hosts.
5865 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5866 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5867 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5868 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5871 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5872 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5873 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5875 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5876 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5877 wake it up if nothing else does.
5879 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5880 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5881 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5884 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5885 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5887 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5889 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5890 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5891 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5892 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5893 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5894 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5895 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5896 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5898 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5899 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5900 than one IP address.
5902 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5903 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5904 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5905 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5907 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5908 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5909 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5910 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5911 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5914 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5915 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5916 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5917 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5919 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5920 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5923 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5924 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5925 $sender_host_address.
5927 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5928 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5929 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5930 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5931 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5934 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5936 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5937 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5939 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5940 just the host names, not the priorities.
5942 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5943 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5944 controlled by a keyword.
5946 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5947 multiple records are returned.
5949 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5950 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5953 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5955 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5956 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5958 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5959 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5960 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5962 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5964 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5966 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5968 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5969 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5970 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5971 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5972 because the tests only now provoked it.
5974 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5975 (this can affect the format of dates).
5977 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5978 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5979 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5980 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5982 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5984 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5985 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5986 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5987 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5989 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5990 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5991 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5993 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5996 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5997 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5998 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5999 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6000 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6001 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6004 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
6005 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
6006 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
6009 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
6010 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
6011 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
6013 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
6014 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
6015 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
6016 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
6017 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
6018 so I produce this patch..."
6020 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
6021 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
6024 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6025 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6026 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6027 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6030 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
6032 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
6033 long debug lines gets shown.
6035 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6036 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6038 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6040 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6041 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6042 of $primary_hostname.
6044 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6045 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6046 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6047 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6048 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6049 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6050 by change 4.50/55 above.
6052 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6053 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6054 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6055 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6056 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6057 running as the user.
6060 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6061 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6062 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6065 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6066 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6068 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6069 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6070 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6071 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6072 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6074 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6075 This has been fixed.
6077 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6078 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6079 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6080 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6083 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6085 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6086 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6087 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6088 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6090 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6091 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6093 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6094 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6095 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6097 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6098 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6099 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6102 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6103 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6104 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6106 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6107 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6108 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6109 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6111 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6112 during host lookups.
6114 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6115 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6117 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6119 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6120 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6121 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6122 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6123 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6126 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6127 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6129 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6130 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6131 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6133 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6135 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6136 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6137 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6138 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6139 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6140 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6143 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6144 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6145 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6146 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6147 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6149 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6152 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6154 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6155 "vacation" handling.
6157 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6158 OS variants using glibc.
6160 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6163 ----------------------------------------------------
6164 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6165 ----------------------------------------------------
6171 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6172 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6175 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6176 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6179 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6180 filter fails to execute.
6182 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6183 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6184 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6185 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6186 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6188 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6189 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6190 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6191 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6193 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6194 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6195 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6196 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6197 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6199 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6201 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6202 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6203 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6204 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6206 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6207 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6208 sender verification.
6210 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6211 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6213 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6214 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6216 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6217 ignore_target_hosts.
6219 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6220 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6221 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6222 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6225 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6226 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6227 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6229 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6230 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6231 wake it up if nothing else does.
6233 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6234 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6235 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6238 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6239 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6241 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6243 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6244 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6247 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6248 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6251 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6252 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6253 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6254 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6255 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6258 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6259 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6262 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6263 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6264 $sender_host_address.
6266 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6268 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6269 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6270 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6272 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6275 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6276 (this can affect the format of dates).
6278 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6279 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6280 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6281 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6283 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6284 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6285 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6287 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6288 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6289 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6290 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6292 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6293 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6294 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6296 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6299 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6300 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6301 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6302 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6303 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6304 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6307 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6308 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6309 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6310 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6313 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6314 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6315 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6316 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6317 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6318 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6319 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6321 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6322 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6323 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6324 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6325 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6326 running as the user.
6329 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6330 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6331 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6334 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6335 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6336 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6337 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6338 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6340 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6341 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6342 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6343 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6346 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6347 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6348 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6349 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6350 because the tests only now provoked it.
6356 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6357 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6358 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6359 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6360 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6361 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6362 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6364 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6365 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6368 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6370 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6372 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6373 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6376 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6377 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6378 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6379 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6380 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6382 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6383 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6385 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6387 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6389 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6392 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6393 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6395 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6396 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6397 affecting debugging statements).
6399 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6401 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6402 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6403 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6404 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6405 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6406 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6407 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6408 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6409 after the received time, and all would be well.
6411 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6412 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6413 condition in an expansion string.
6415 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6417 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6418 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6419 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6420 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6421 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6422 job under whatever limits there are.
6424 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6426 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6429 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6430 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6431 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6432 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6435 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6436 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6437 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6438 binary data in such strings.
6440 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6442 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6443 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6444 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6445 failure, which is pointless.
6447 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6449 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6451 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6452 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6453 Sender: header lines.
6455 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6456 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6457 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6459 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6460 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6461 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6462 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6463 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6466 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6467 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6468 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6469 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6470 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6472 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6473 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6474 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6477 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6478 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6480 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6481 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6483 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6485 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6487 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6489 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6492 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6494 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6496 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6497 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6498 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6499 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6501 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6502 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6508 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6509 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6510 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6512 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6513 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6514 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6515 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6516 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6517 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6519 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6520 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6521 verification failure".
6523 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6524 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6525 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6526 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6528 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6529 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6530 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6531 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6532 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6533 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6534 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6535 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6536 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6537 treated as a timeout.
6539 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6540 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6541 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6542 not set for Exim filters).
6544 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6545 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6546 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6548 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6550 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6551 try to make them clearer.
6553 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6554 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6556 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6558 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6560 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6561 only the Cygwin environment.
6563 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6564 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6565 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6566 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6567 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6569 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6570 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6571 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6572 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6573 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6574 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6575 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6577 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6578 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6580 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6582 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6583 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6584 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6586 To: susanne@some.where
6588 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6589 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6590 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6591 of addresses in From: header lines).
6593 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6594 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6595 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6597 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6598 treated as non-personal.
6600 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6601 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6603 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6605 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6607 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6608 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6609 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6611 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6612 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6614 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6615 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6616 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6617 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6618 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6619 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6621 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6622 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6623 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6624 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6625 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6626 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6627 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6628 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6630 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6632 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6633 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6635 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6636 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6637 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6639 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6640 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6642 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6643 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6644 rather than long int.
6646 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6648 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6654 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6655 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6656 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6657 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6658 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6659 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6665 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6666 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6668 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6669 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6670 socklen_t is defined.
6672 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6675 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6678 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6679 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6680 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6681 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6682 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6684 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6685 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6686 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6687 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6689 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6690 of flapping under certain conditions.
6692 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6693 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6694 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6696 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6698 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6700 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6701 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6702 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6703 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6705 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6706 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6707 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6708 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6709 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6710 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6711 preserved with the message after it was received.
6713 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6714 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6715 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6716 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6717 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6718 test suite worked just fine.
6720 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6721 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6722 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6724 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6725 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6728 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6729 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6730 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6731 does not fully solve it.
6733 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6734 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6735 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6736 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6737 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6739 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6740 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6741 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6743 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6744 string, for example:
6746 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6748 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6749 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6750 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6751 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6752 the routers could not see them.
6754 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6755 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6757 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6758 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6761 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6762 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6763 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6764 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6765 that needed quoting.
6767 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6768 was not being matched caselessly.
6770 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6773 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6774 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6775 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6776 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6777 when use_sender is false.
6779 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6781 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6783 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6785 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6786 the configuration file.
6788 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6789 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6791 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6793 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6794 bytes in the message body.
6796 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6797 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6800 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6802 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6804 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6805 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6806 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6807 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6814 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6815 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6817 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6818 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6819 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6820 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6821 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6823 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6824 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6826 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6827 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6828 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6830 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6831 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6832 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6834 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6837 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6838 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6839 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6840 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6841 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6842 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6843 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6849 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6850 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6851 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6852 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6853 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6854 default (and expected) setting.
6856 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6857 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6858 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6859 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6861 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6862 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6864 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6867 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6868 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6869 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6870 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6871 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6872 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6874 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6875 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6876 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6878 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6879 part (NOT match_host).
6881 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6883 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6884 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6885 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6886 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6887 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6888 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6889 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6890 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6891 the same named file.
6893 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6894 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6897 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6898 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6899 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6900 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6903 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6904 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6905 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6907 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6909 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6911 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6913 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6914 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6916 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6917 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6918 before starting the TLS session.
6920 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6922 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6923 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6925 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6926 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6927 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6928 colon in the middle).
6934 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6935 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6936 multiple configurations are in use.
6938 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6939 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6940 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6941 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6942 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6943 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6945 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6946 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6948 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6949 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6950 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6952 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6953 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6956 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6957 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6959 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6961 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6962 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6964 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6972 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6973 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6974 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6975 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6976 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6978 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6981 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6982 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6983 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6984 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6985 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6986 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6988 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6989 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6990 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6991 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6992 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6993 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6994 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6997 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6998 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6999 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
7000 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
7001 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
7003 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
7005 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
7006 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
7007 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
7009 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
7011 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
7012 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
7013 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
7016 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
7017 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
7019 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
7020 Three changes have been made:
7022 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
7023 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
7024 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
7025 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
7026 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
7028 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
7031 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
7032 the modified behaviour.
7038 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7041 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7042 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7044 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7045 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7046 try to track down a specific problem.
7048 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7049 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7050 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7052 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7055 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7056 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7057 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7058 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7059 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7060 some earlier ones do not.
7062 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7064 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7065 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7066 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7067 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7068 address literals are enabled, of course).
7070 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7072 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7073 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7074 by a command such as
7078 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7080 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7082 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7083 remained set. It is now erased.
7085 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7086 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7088 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7089 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7090 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7091 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7092 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7093 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7094 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7095 appropriate error code.
7097 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7098 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7099 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7100 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7101 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7102 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7104 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7105 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7106 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7108 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7109 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7110 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7111 terminate the header.
7113 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7114 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7115 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7117 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7118 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7119 (4.30/29). In particular:
7121 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7124 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7125 to write a maildirsize file.
7127 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7128 the transport, the new value overrides.
7130 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7133 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7134 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7135 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7138 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7139 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7140 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7143 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7144 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7145 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7147 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7148 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7151 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7152 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7153 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7155 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7157 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7159 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7161 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7162 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7165 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7166 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7167 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7168 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7169 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7170 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7171 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7174 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7175 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7176 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7177 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7178 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7181 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7182 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7183 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7184 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7185 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7186 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7187 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7188 cached value only when the same options are set.
7190 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7192 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7193 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7194 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7195 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7196 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7198 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7199 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7200 it is clearly obsolete.
7202 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7205 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7206 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7207 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7210 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7211 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7212 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7213 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7214 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7216 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7217 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7218 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7219 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7221 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7223 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7225 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7226 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7229 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7230 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7231 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7232 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7233 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7234 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7237 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7238 with the -f command-line option.
7240 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7241 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7242 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7243 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7244 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7245 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7247 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7248 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7251 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7252 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7253 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7254 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7255 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7256 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7257 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7258 buffer is too small.
7260 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7261 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7263 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7264 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7265 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7266 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7267 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7268 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7269 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7270 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7271 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7273 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7274 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7275 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7277 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7278 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7281 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7282 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7283 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7284 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7285 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7287 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7288 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7289 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7290 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7293 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7295 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7297 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7298 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7300 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7301 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7302 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7304 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7305 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7306 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7307 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7308 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7310 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7311 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7312 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7313 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7314 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7315 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7316 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7318 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7319 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7320 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7321 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7322 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7323 the test of how many are available.
7325 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7326 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7327 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7328 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7329 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7330 new message is started.
7332 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7333 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7335 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7336 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7338 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7339 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7340 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7343 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7344 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7345 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7346 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7347 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7348 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7349 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7351 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7352 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7353 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7354 interpreted as octal.
7356 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7359 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7360 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7361 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7362 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7363 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7364 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7366 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7367 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7368 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7369 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7371 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7372 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7373 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7374 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7376 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7377 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7380 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7381 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7383 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7385 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7386 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7387 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7388 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7390 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7391 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7392 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7393 supplied", which is not helpful.
7395 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7396 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7397 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7399 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7400 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7401 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7402 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7403 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7404 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7405 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7406 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7408 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7409 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7410 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7411 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7412 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7414 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7415 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7416 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7417 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7418 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7419 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7421 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7422 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7423 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7425 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7427 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7428 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7429 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7432 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7434 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7435 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7436 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7437 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7438 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7439 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7440 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7441 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7443 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7444 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7445 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7446 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7447 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7449 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7452 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7453 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7454 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7455 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7456 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7457 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7458 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7459 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7460 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7466 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7467 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7468 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7470 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7473 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7474 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7475 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7477 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7478 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7479 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7480 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7481 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7482 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7484 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7485 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7486 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7487 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7488 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7489 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7490 the Exim test suite.
7492 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7493 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7494 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7495 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7497 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7498 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7499 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7500 specify it in this variable.
7502 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7503 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7504 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7505 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7507 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7508 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7509 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7510 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7512 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7513 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7514 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7515 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7516 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7518 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7520 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7523 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7524 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7525 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7526 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7527 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7529 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7530 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7532 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7533 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7534 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7535 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7536 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7538 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7539 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7541 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7542 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7543 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7545 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7546 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7548 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7549 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7551 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7552 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7553 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7555 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7556 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7558 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7559 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7560 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7561 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7563 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7565 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7566 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7567 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7568 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7570 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7572 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7573 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7575 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7577 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7578 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7579 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7580 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7581 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7582 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7584 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7586 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7587 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7590 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7592 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7593 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7595 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7596 550 Sender verify failed
7598 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7599 the final line of the response.
7601 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7602 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7603 all other user lookups.
7605 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7608 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7609 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7610 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7611 result into an int without checking.
7613 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7614 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7615 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7617 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7618 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7619 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7620 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7622 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7625 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7626 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7628 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7629 to the empty sender.
7631 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7632 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7633 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7634 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7635 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7636 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7637 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7640 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7641 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7642 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7643 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7646 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7647 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7649 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7652 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7653 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7655 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7657 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7658 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7661 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7662 as soon as it is encountered.
7664 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7666 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7669 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7670 recognizes a tab character.
7672 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7673 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7674 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7675 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7677 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7679 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7682 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7684 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7686 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7687 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7690 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7691 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7692 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7693 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7694 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7696 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7697 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7699 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7700 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7701 list (.included file names were always shown).
7703 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7704 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7705 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7708 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7709 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7711 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7713 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7715 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7717 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7718 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7719 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7720 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7721 failures to open the logs.
7723 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7724 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7725 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7726 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7727 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7728 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7729 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7735 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7736 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7737 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7740 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7741 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7742 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7744 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7745 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7746 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7748 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7749 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7750 causing some misleading effects.
7752 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7753 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7754 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7756 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7757 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7758 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7759 queue-runner function directly.
7765 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7768 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7769 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7770 was always written to the default place.
7772 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7773 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7774 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7776 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7778 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7780 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7781 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7782 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7784 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7785 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7788 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7789 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7790 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7792 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7793 command line option is disabled.
7795 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7796 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7798 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7800 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7802 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7803 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7805 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7807 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7808 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7809 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7810 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7811 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7812 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7814 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7815 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7818 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7819 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7821 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7822 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7824 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7825 received was valid base64.
7827 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7828 name of the variable that was being set.
7830 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7832 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7833 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7834 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7835 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7836 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7837 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7839 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7841 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7842 nor realm was specified.
7844 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7845 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7846 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7847 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7849 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7850 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7851 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7853 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7854 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7855 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7857 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7858 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7859 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7860 some systems use these upper case variants.
7862 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7863 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7864 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7865 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7867 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7869 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7870 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7872 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7873 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7876 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7878 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7879 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7880 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7881 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7883 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7886 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7887 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7888 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7890 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7891 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7893 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7894 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7895 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7896 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7898 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7899 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7900 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7902 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7904 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7905 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7906 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7907 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7910 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7911 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7912 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7914 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7916 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7917 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7919 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7920 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7922 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7923 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7924 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7925 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7926 when emails are that large.
7933 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7934 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7936 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7937 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7938 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7940 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7941 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7942 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7944 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7945 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7946 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7947 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7948 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7950 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7951 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7952 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7953 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7954 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7957 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7958 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7959 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7960 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7961 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7962 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7963 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7964 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7965 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7966 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7967 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7968 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7969 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7970 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7972 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7973 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7976 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7977 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7978 error should be diagnosed.
7980 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7981 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7982 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7983 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7984 appeared instead of "NULL".
7986 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7987 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7988 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7989 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7990 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7991 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7994 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7995 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7996 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
8002 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
8003 or receiver verification errors.
8005 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
8008 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
8009 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
8010 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
8011 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
8013 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
8014 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
8015 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
8016 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
8017 shouldn't happen again.
8019 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
8020 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
8021 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
8023 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
8024 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
8026 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
8028 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
8029 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
8031 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
8032 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
8035 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8036 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8037 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8039 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8040 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8041 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8042 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8044 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8045 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8046 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8047 to define what should happen).
8049 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8050 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8051 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8053 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8055 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8057 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8058 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8060 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8061 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8062 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8063 structure in all cases.
8065 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8066 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8067 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8068 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8070 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8071 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8074 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8075 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8077 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8078 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8080 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8081 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8082 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8084 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8085 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8086 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8088 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8089 the book and for uniformity.
8091 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8093 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8094 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8095 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8096 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8097 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8098 non-existent command as the problem.
8100 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8101 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8102 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8104 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8106 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8107 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8108 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8110 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8111 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8112 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8113 timestamps using strftime().
8115 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8116 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8118 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8119 transport-time rewrites.
8121 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8122 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8123 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8124 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8126 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8127 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8129 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8130 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8131 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8132 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8135 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8136 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8137 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8138 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8139 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8140 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8141 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8143 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8144 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8145 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8146 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8147 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8149 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8150 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8151 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8152 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8153 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8154 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8155 remaining text gets split now.
8157 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8158 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8159 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8160 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8162 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8163 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8164 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8165 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8168 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8169 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8170 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8171 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8172 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8173 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8174 passed through if needed.
8176 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8177 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8178 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8179 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8180 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8181 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8183 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8184 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8185 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8186 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8187 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8189 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8190 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8191 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8192 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8193 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8195 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8196 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8199 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8200 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8201 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8202 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8203 mayhem of various kinds.
8205 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8206 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8207 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8208 the right test for positive values.
8210 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8211 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8212 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8213 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8214 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8215 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8216 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8217 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8218 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8219 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8222 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8225 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8226 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8229 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8230 the existing equality matching.
8232 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8233 dealing with inode numbers.
8235 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8236 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8237 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8239 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8240 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8241 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8242 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8245 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8246 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8247 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8248 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8249 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8250 relay addresses has also been removed.
8252 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8254 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8255 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8256 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8258 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8259 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8260 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8261 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8262 processing applies to CR:
8264 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8265 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8267 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8268 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8269 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8270 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8272 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8273 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8274 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8276 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8277 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8278 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8279 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8280 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8281 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8284 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8287 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8288 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8289 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8290 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8293 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8295 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8297 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8299 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8300 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8301 not considered personal.
8303 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8305 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8307 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8309 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8310 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8311 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8312 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8313 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8314 header lines, and spool format errors.
8316 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8317 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8318 for more flexibility.
8320 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8321 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8322 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8324 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8327 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8328 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8329 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8330 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8331 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8332 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8333 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8334 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8335 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8337 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8338 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8339 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8340 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8341 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8342 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8343 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8345 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8346 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8347 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8349 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8350 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8351 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8352 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8353 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8354 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8355 instead of killing the process with assert().
8357 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8358 than Unicode encoding.
8360 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8361 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8362 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8363 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8365 77. Added process_log_path.
8367 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8368 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8370 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8371 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8373 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8374 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8375 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8377 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8378 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8379 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8380 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8381 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8384 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8385 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8388 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8389 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8390 they will be used during message reception.
8396 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.