1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
10 HS/01 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
16 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917, OVE-20190718-0006)
22 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
23 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
25 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
26 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
27 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
28 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
29 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
32 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
33 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
35 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
36 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
39 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
40 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
42 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
43 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
44 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
45 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
48 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
49 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
50 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
52 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
55 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
56 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
59 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
60 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
61 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
62 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
63 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
64 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
65 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
66 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
68 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
69 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
71 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
72 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
75 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
76 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
79 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
80 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
81 one for these; the option was ignored.
83 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
85 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
86 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
87 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
94 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
95 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
97 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
98 non-signal-safe functions being used.
100 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
101 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
102 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
104 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
105 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
106 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
108 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
109 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
110 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
111 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
112 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
115 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
116 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
118 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
119 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
120 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
121 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
122 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
123 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
124 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
126 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
127 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
129 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
132 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
133 Previously this would segfault.
135 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
138 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
139 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
140 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
141 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
142 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
143 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
145 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
147 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
148 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
149 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
150 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
152 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
154 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
155 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
156 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
157 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
159 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
161 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
163 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
164 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
165 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
167 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
168 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
169 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
171 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
173 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
174 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
175 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
176 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
178 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
179 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
180 promised '?' replacement.
182 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
184 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
185 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
186 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
187 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
188 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
190 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
191 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
192 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
194 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
195 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
196 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
198 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
199 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
200 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
202 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
203 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
204 hope that is portable enough.
206 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
207 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
208 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
209 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
211 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
212 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
213 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
215 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
216 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
217 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
218 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
220 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
221 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
223 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
224 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
225 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
226 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
228 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
229 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
230 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
232 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
233 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
234 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
235 the previous G, M, k.
237 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
238 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
241 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
242 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
243 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
244 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
246 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
247 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
249 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
250 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
251 off past the nul-terimation.
253 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
254 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
255 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
256 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
257 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
259 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
261 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
262 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
263 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
266 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
267 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
269 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
270 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
271 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
273 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
274 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
275 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
277 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
278 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
284 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
285 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
286 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
287 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
288 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
289 be defined in redis_servers.
291 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
292 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
294 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
295 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
296 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
297 extant use locations.
299 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
300 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
302 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
303 Previously only the last row was returned.
305 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
306 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
307 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
308 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
311 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
312 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
313 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
314 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
315 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
316 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
317 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
318 Main pool for expansions.
319 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
320 active in the testsuite.
321 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
323 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
324 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
325 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
326 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
329 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
330 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
333 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
334 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
335 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
337 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
338 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
339 ClamAV interface method is removed.
341 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
342 rows affected is given instead).
344 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
345 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
347 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
348 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
349 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
350 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
351 for all multi-message initiating connections.
353 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
354 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
355 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
357 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
358 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
359 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
360 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
363 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
364 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
365 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
368 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
370 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
371 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
373 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
374 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
375 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
377 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
378 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
379 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
382 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
383 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
385 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
386 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
387 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
389 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
390 for the build is renamed.
392 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
393 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
394 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
396 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
397 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
398 result replacing the original.
400 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
401 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
402 and the resources needed to be freed.
404 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
406 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
409 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
410 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
411 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
412 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
414 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
415 length value. Previously this would segfault.
417 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
418 newer versions of the scanner.
420 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
421 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
422 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
423 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
424 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
425 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
426 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
428 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
429 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
430 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
431 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
432 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
433 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
434 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
435 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
436 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
437 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
439 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
440 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
442 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
444 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
445 allows proper process termination in container environments.
447 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
448 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
450 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
451 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
452 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
454 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
455 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
456 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
457 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
459 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
460 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
463 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
464 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
466 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
467 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
468 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
469 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
470 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
472 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
473 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
476 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
477 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
479 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
482 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
483 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
484 "bare" representation.
486 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
487 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
488 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
489 corrupted the output.
495 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
496 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
497 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
498 pairs of long lines into single ones.
500 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
501 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
503 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
504 This permits better logging.
506 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
507 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
508 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
509 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
510 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
511 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
513 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
514 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
517 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
518 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
519 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
521 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
522 than 255 are no longer allowed.
524 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
525 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
526 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
527 client, there is no benefit for these.
528 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
529 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
530 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
533 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
534 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
536 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
537 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
538 erroneously found still-pending ones.
540 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
541 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
543 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
544 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
545 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
546 signature and again for transmission.
548 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
549 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
550 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
552 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
553 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
554 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
555 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
556 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
557 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
558 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
560 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
561 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
562 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
563 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
565 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
566 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
567 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
568 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
569 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
570 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
573 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
574 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
575 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
576 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
579 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
580 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
581 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
582 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
585 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
586 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
589 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
590 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
591 banner-time rejection.
593 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
596 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
597 is the name of a transport.
600 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
602 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
603 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
605 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
606 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
607 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
610 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
611 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
612 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
613 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
615 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
616 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
617 initial verify call returned a defer.
619 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
620 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
622 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
623 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
625 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
626 if present. Previously it was ignored.
628 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
629 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
631 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
632 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
635 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
636 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
638 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
639 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
640 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
642 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
643 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
644 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
645 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
647 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
648 and confused the parent.
650 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
651 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
653 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
656 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
657 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
658 out-of-order delivery.
660 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
661 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
662 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
665 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
666 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
669 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
670 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
671 one run was done. Bug 2189.
673 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
674 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
675 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
676 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
677 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
678 message is still "Temporary local problem".
680 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
681 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
682 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
684 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
685 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
686 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
688 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
689 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
690 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
691 though a different problem.
697 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
698 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
700 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
702 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
703 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
705 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
706 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
708 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
709 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
710 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
711 before acknowledging the chunk.
713 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
714 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
715 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
717 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
718 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
719 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
722 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
723 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
724 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
726 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
727 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
729 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
730 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
731 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
732 body hash calculated value.
734 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
735 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
736 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
738 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
740 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
741 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
743 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
744 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
745 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
747 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
748 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
749 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
750 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
751 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
752 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
754 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
755 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
756 past that check, despite the cost.
758 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
759 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
760 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
762 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
763 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
764 TLS library to consume.
766 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
768 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
770 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
771 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
772 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
773 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
774 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
775 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
776 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
778 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
780 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
782 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
783 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
784 should be warning-free.
786 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
788 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
789 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
791 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
792 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
793 general solution here.
795 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
796 already-broken messages in the queue.
798 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
800 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
806 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
807 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
809 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
810 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
811 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
813 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
814 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
815 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
816 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
817 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
818 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
819 if one fails this test.
820 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
821 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
823 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
824 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
826 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
827 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
829 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
830 in rewrites and routers.
832 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
833 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
835 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
836 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
838 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
840 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
843 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
844 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
845 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
846 connection after a verify cache hit.
847 Do not update it with the verify result either.
849 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
850 when routing results in more than one destination address.
852 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
853 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
854 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
855 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
856 when the cutthrough connection is made).
858 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
859 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
861 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
862 Previously they were not counted.
864 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
865 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
866 that needed the lookup.
868 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
869 distinguished as "(=".
871 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
872 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
874 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
876 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
877 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
879 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
880 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
882 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
883 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
886 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
887 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
888 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
889 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
891 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
893 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
894 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
895 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
897 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
898 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
899 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
902 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
903 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
904 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
907 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
908 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
909 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
911 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
912 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
915 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
917 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
918 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
920 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
921 are not in the system include path.
923 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
924 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
925 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
926 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
928 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
929 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
930 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
932 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
934 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
935 an incoming connection.
937 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
940 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
941 fallback to "prime256v1".
943 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
944 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
950 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
951 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
952 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
953 client dropping the TLS connection.
955 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
956 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
958 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
959 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
960 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
961 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
964 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
965 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
966 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
967 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
968 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
969 check on the next write.
971 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
972 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
973 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
974 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
975 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
977 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
978 mime_regex ACL conditions.
980 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
981 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
982 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
984 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
985 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
986 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
987 an authenticate fail is not an error.
989 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
990 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
992 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
993 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
995 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
996 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
997 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1000 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1002 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1004 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1006 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1007 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1009 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1010 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1012 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1014 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1015 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1017 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1019 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1020 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1022 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1024 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1025 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1026 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1027 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1028 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1029 they will retry in-clear.
1030 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1031 at installation time.
1033 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1034 with the $config_file variable.
1036 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1037 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1038 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1039 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1040 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1042 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1043 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1044 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1045 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1046 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1048 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1050 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1051 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1052 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1053 list order is no longer honoured.
1055 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1056 for DKIM processing.
1058 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1059 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1061 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1062 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1063 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1064 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1066 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1067 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1069 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1070 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1072 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1073 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1075 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1077 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1078 cached by the daemon.
1080 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1081 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1083 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1084 keys are given for lookup.
1086 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1087 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1088 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1089 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1091 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1092 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1093 server-side so match that on older versions.
1095 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1096 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1097 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1099 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1100 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1102 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1103 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1104 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1105 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1106 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1107 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1108 initial truncated version.
1110 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1112 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1114 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1115 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1117 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1119 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1121 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1122 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1125 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1126 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1129 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1130 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1132 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1133 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1136 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1137 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1138 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1140 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1141 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1142 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1143 extraction. Accept either.
1149 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1152 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1154 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1157 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1158 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1159 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1160 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1162 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1163 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1164 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1166 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1167 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1168 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1171 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1174 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1175 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1176 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1177 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1178 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1180 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1181 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1182 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1184 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1186 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1187 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1189 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1190 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1192 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1195 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1196 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1198 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1199 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1200 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1202 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1203 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1204 specify a port-range.
1206 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1207 timeout value per server.
1209 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1210 now have the list separator specified.
1212 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1215 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1218 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1220 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1221 rather than the verbs used.
1223 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1224 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1226 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1228 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1229 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1231 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1232 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1234 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1235 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1237 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1239 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1241 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1242 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1243 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1244 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1246 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1248 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1249 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1251 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1252 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1254 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1256 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1258 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1260 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1261 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1263 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1264 added for tls authenticator.
1266 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1272 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1273 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1274 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1275 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1276 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1277 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1278 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1280 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1281 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1282 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1283 function when detected.
1285 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1286 cause callback expansion.
1288 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1289 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1290 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1291 instead of bool when processing it.
1293 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1294 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1296 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1298 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1300 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1302 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1303 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1305 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1306 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1307 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1308 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1309 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1310 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1312 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1313 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1316 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1317 version 3.3.6 or later.
1319 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1320 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1321 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1322 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1323 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1324 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1327 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1328 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1330 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1331 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1332 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1335 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1336 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1337 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1339 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1340 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1342 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1343 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1346 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1348 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1349 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1351 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1352 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1355 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1357 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1360 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1361 output list separator was used.
1366 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1367 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1370 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1371 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1373 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1375 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1376 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1382 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1384 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1385 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1386 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1387 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1388 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1389 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1391 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1392 utilities have not been installed.
1394 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1395 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1397 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1398 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1400 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1401 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1402 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1403 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1405 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1407 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1408 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1410 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1413 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1415 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1416 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1417 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1419 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1420 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1421 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1422 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1423 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1424 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1426 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1428 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1429 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1431 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1434 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1436 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1438 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1439 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1441 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1442 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1444 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1446 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1448 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1449 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1451 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1452 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1453 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1455 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1456 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1457 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1460 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1462 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1463 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1466 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1467 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1470 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1471 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1473 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1474 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1476 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1478 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1479 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1480 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1482 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1483 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1485 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1486 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1489 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1490 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1491 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1493 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1495 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1496 Christian Aistleitner.
1498 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1500 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1501 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1503 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1504 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1506 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1507 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1509 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1510 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1512 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1513 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1515 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1516 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1517 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1519 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1521 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1522 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1525 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1527 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1528 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1535 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1537 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1538 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1540 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1543 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1544 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1547 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1549 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1550 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1551 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1552 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1553 using channel bindings instead).
1555 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1556 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1557 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1558 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1559 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1562 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1564 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1566 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1567 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1569 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1570 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1571 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1573 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1575 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1577 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1578 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1580 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1582 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1584 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1586 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1587 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1589 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1591 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1592 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1595 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1596 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1598 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1599 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1602 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1604 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1606 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1607 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1609 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1612 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1613 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1615 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1616 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1618 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1620 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1622 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1625 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1628 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1630 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1631 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1632 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1633 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1635 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1637 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1638 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1639 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1640 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1643 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1644 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1645 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1647 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1648 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1649 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1650 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1652 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1653 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1654 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1655 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1656 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1657 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1658 delivery, as in LMTP.
1660 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1661 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1663 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1665 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1669 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1670 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1671 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1672 username as equal to the username.
1674 This change corrects that bug.
1676 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1677 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1678 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1680 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1682 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1683 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1684 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1685 NULL dereference and crash.
1687 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1689 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1690 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1691 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1693 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1695 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1696 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1697 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1698 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1699 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1700 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1701 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1702 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1703 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1704 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1705 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1707 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1708 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1710 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1711 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1714 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1715 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1716 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1717 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1718 an empty string is now equivalent.
1720 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1721 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1722 not performing validation itself.
1724 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1725 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1727 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1730 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1732 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1733 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1734 other false fix of the same issue.
1735 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1738 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1739 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1741 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1742 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1743 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1745 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1746 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1747 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1749 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1751 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1753 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1754 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1756 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1759 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1760 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1761 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1762 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1763 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1765 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1766 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1768 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1769 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1772 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1773 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1774 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1775 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1777 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1779 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1780 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1781 from multiple comments on this bug.
1783 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1785 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1786 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1789 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1790 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1792 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1793 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1799 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1801 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1807 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1808 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1809 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1811 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1813 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1816 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1818 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1820 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1822 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1823 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1825 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1826 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1828 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1829 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1831 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1832 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1833 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1835 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1837 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1838 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1840 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1842 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1844 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1845 non-compliant senders.
1846 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1848 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1849 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1850 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1852 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1853 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1854 in spool file corruption.
1856 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1857 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1858 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1861 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1862 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1863 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1865 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1866 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1868 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1870 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1872 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1874 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
1875 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1876 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1878 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1879 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1880 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1881 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1883 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1884 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1886 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1887 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1888 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1889 resolver implementation change.
1891 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1892 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1894 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1896 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1898 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1899 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1901 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1902 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1904 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1905 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1907 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1908 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1909 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1910 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1911 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1913 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1915 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1916 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1917 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1919 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1921 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1922 read-only, out of scope).
1923 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1925 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1926 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1927 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1928 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1930 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1932 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1933 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1934 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1935 real issues in debug logging.
1937 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1938 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1940 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1941 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1942 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1944 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1945 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1946 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1949 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1950 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1952 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1953 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1954 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1955 needs to override this, it can.
1957 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1958 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1959 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1961 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1962 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1963 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1964 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1966 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1972 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1973 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1975 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1977 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1980 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1981 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1983 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1984 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1985 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1987 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1988 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1989 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1990 not safe for signals.
1992 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1993 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1994 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1995 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1998 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2000 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2001 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2002 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2003 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2004 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2006 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2007 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2008 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2009 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2010 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2011 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2013 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2014 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2015 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2016 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2018 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2019 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2020 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2021 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2023 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2024 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2025 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2026 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2027 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2028 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2029 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2030 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2031 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2033 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2034 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2035 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2036 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2038 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2039 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2040 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2041 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2042 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2043 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2044 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2045 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2046 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2047 details in the main documentation.
2049 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2051 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2053 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2054 repository when doing development or release builds.
2056 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2057 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2059 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2060 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2063 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2065 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2066 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2068 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2069 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2071 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2072 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2074 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2075 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2077 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2078 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2080 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2082 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2085 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2086 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2087 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2089 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2091 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2093 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2094 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2100 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2102 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2103 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2105 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2107 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2109 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2112 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2113 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2115 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2116 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2118 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2119 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2121 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2124 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2125 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2127 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2128 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2129 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2130 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2132 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2133 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2139 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2142 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2143 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2144 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2146 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2147 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2149 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2150 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2151 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2153 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2154 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2156 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2157 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2159 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2160 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2162 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2163 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2165 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2166 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2168 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2171 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2172 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2174 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2175 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2177 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2178 SQL string expansion failure details.
2179 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2181 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2182 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2184 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2185 extern declarations in function scope.
2186 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2188 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2189 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2190 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2193 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2194 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2196 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2197 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2199 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2200 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2202 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2203 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2205 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2206 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2209 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2211 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2213 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2214 Patch by Simon Arlott
2216 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2217 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2223 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2224 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2226 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2227 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2229 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2231 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2232 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2233 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2235 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2236 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2237 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2239 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2240 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2241 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2242 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2244 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2245 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2246 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2247 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2249 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2250 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2251 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2254 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2257 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2258 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2259 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2260 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2261 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2267 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2268 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2269 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2271 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2272 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2274 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2276 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2278 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2280 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2282 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2284 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2285 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2286 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2287 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2289 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2290 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2291 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2292 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2293 more caution in buffer sizes.
2295 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2297 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2299 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2301 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2303 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2305 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2307 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2309 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2310 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2311 ignore trailing whitespace.
2313 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2315 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2318 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2319 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2321 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2322 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2323 Notification from John Horne.
2325 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2328 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2329 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2332 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2335 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2336 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2337 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2339 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2340 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2341 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2344 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2345 option (effectively making it always true).
2347 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2348 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2350 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2351 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2353 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2354 run-time user, instead of root.
2356 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2357 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2359 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2360 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2363 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2364 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2365 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2367 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2369 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2375 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2376 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2379 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2380 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2383 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2384 Patch from Alain Williams
2386 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2388 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2389 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2391 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2392 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2394 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2396 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2398 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2399 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2401 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2403 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2405 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2406 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2407 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2409 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2410 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2412 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2413 Patch by Simon Arlott
2415 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2416 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2422 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2424 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2426 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2428 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2430 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2436 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2437 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2439 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2440 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2443 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2444 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2445 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2447 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2448 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2450 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2451 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2452 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2453 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2455 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2456 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2457 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2459 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2461 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2463 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2464 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2466 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2468 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2469 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2470 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2471 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2473 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2474 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2476 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2478 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2480 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2481 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2483 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2484 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2486 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2487 that they are available at delivery time.
2489 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2491 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2492 incoming_port log selectors.
2494 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2495 setting expands to an empty string.
2497 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2498 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2500 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2501 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2503 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2504 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2506 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2507 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2509 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2510 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2512 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2513 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2515 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2517 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2518 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2520 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2521 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2523 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2525 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2526 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2528 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2530 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2532 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2535 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2536 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2538 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2539 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2541 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2542 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2544 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2545 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2547 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2548 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2550 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2551 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2553 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2554 plus update to original patch.
2556 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2558 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2559 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2561 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2563 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2565 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2567 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2569 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2570 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2572 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2573 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2575 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2576 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2578 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2579 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2581 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2583 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2585 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2587 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2593 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2594 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2595 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2597 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2598 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2599 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2600 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2601 build errors in sieve.c.
2603 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2604 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2605 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2607 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2609 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2611 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2613 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2619 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2621 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2622 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2623 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2624 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2625 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2626 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2627 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2628 for iplsearch lookups.
2630 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2631 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2632 previously such lookups could never work.
2634 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2635 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2636 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2638 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2641 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2642 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2643 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2644 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2645 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2646 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2648 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2649 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2651 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2652 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2653 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2654 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2655 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2656 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2658 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2661 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2663 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2664 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2667 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2668 by clients under certain conditions.
2670 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2671 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2673 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2675 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2676 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2678 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2680 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2682 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2684 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2685 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2687 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2689 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2690 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2692 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2694 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2696 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2697 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2698 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2699 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2701 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2702 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2703 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2705 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2706 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2708 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2710 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2712 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2714 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2715 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2716 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2722 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2723 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2726 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2727 issue a MAIL command.
2729 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2731 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2733 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2734 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2735 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2736 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2737 item. This has been fixed.
2739 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2740 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2742 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2743 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2745 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2746 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2747 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2749 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2751 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2752 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2753 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2754 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2755 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2757 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2758 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2759 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2761 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2762 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2763 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2764 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2766 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2768 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2770 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2771 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2772 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2773 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2774 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2776 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2778 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2779 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2780 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2783 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2785 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2787 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2789 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2791 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2793 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2794 no_callout_flush is set.
2796 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2797 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2798 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2801 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2803 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2804 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2805 other ACL rejections are.
2807 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2808 with slight modification.
2810 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2811 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2813 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2814 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2817 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2818 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2820 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2822 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2823 expansion side effects.
2825 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2826 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2827 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2830 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2831 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2832 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2834 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2835 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2836 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2837 were accidentally chopped off.
2839 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2840 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2841 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2842 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2843 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2844 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2845 pipelining has not been advertised.
2847 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2849 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2850 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2851 This has been fixed.
2853 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2854 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2855 reported on Solaris.
2857 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2858 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2859 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2860 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2861 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2862 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2863 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2865 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2868 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2870 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2872 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2873 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2874 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2875 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2876 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2877 criteria to be more general.
2879 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2880 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2881 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2882 host_all_ignored option.
2884 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2885 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2886 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2887 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2888 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2889 is what is supposed to happen).
2891 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2892 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2893 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2894 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2895 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2898 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2899 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2900 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2901 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2902 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2903 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2906 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2908 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2909 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2911 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2912 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2914 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2916 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2918 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2919 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2920 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2921 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2922 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2923 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2924 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2925 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2926 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2927 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2928 least in a lot of common cases.
2930 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2931 advertised in response to EHLO.
2937 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2938 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2940 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2941 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2943 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2944 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2945 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2947 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2948 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2949 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2950 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2951 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2957 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2958 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2961 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2962 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2963 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2965 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2966 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2967 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2968 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2969 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2970 rather than extend the field.
2976 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2977 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2978 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2979 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2982 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2983 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2984 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2986 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2987 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2988 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2990 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2991 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2992 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2995 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2996 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2997 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2998 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2999 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3000 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3001 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3002 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3003 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3004 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3005 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3007 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3010 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3011 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3012 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3013 ignores EPIPE as well.
3015 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3016 (quoted-printable decoding).
3018 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3019 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3021 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3023 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3025 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3027 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3028 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3030 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3033 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3034 miscellaneous code fixes
3036 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3039 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3040 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3041 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3042 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3043 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3044 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3045 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3046 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3048 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3049 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3050 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3051 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3053 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3054 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3055 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3056 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3057 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3058 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3059 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3060 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3061 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3063 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3066 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3067 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3068 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3069 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3070 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3071 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3072 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3073 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3075 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3076 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3079 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3080 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3081 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3082 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3083 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3084 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3085 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3086 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3087 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3088 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3089 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3090 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3091 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3093 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3094 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3095 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3096 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3097 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3098 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3099 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3101 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3102 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3103 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3104 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3105 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3106 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3107 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3108 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3109 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3110 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3112 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3113 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3114 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3115 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3116 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3118 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3119 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3120 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3121 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3122 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3123 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3124 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3126 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3127 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3128 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3129 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3130 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3131 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3134 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3135 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3136 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3139 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3140 if any retry times were supplied.
3142 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3143 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3144 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3146 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3148 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3150 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3151 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3152 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3153 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3154 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3155 before) are ignored.
3157 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3158 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3160 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3161 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3162 committing the later change.]
3164 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3165 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3166 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3167 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3168 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3169 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3170 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3171 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3172 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3174 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3175 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3176 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3177 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3178 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3179 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3180 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3181 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3182 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3184 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3185 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3186 hammering the server.
3188 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3189 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3191 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3193 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3194 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3195 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3197 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3198 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3199 one case where this was not true.
3201 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3202 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3203 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3204 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3207 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3208 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3209 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3210 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3211 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3212 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3213 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3214 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3215 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3218 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3219 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3220 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3221 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3223 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3224 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3226 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3227 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3228 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3230 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3232 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3234 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3236 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3237 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3238 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3239 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3241 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3242 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3244 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3245 be meaningful with "accept".
3247 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3248 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3250 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3251 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3252 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3254 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3255 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3256 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3257 there is data to show.
3258 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3260 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3261 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3262 as well as the number of messages.
3264 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3265 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3266 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3268 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3269 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3270 have a flag are now skipped.
3272 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3273 Added the -emptyok flag.
3275 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3276 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3278 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3279 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3280 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3282 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3285 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3286 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3288 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3290 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3291 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3293 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3295 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3296 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3297 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3298 contravention of the specifications.
3300 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3301 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3302 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3304 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3305 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3306 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3308 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3310 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3311 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3312 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3313 some point in the past.
3315 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3316 transport during callout processing was broken.
3318 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3319 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3321 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3322 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3324 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3325 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3327 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3333 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3334 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3336 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3337 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3338 there is data to show.
3339 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3341 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3342 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3344 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3345 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3347 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3348 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3350 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3351 submissions from trusted users.
3353 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3354 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3356 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3357 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3358 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3359 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3360 there is now a framework to start from.
3362 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3363 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3364 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3366 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3368 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3370 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3372 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3373 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3374 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3376 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3379 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3380 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3381 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3383 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3384 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3385 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3388 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3389 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3390 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3391 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3392 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3394 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3395 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3397 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3399 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3400 operations in malware.c.
3402 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3405 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3406 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3407 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3410 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3411 statements to "add_header".
3413 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3414 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3416 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3417 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3420 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3424 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3425 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3426 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3429 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3430 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3432 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3433 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3435 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3436 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3437 any possible encoding problems.
3439 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3440 but not after initializing Perl.
3442 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3443 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3444 apparently, which is not desirable.
3446 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3449 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3452 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3454 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3455 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3456 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3457 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3459 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3460 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3461 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3463 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3464 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3465 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3468 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3469 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3470 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3471 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3472 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3478 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3479 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3481 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3484 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3485 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3486 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3487 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3488 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3489 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3490 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3491 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3494 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3496 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3497 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3498 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3500 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3501 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3502 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3505 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3506 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3508 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3509 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3510 option (which defaults to 0600).
3512 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3514 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3515 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3516 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3517 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3518 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3519 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3520 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3522 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3528 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3529 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3530 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3531 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3532 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3533 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3536 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3537 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3539 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3541 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3542 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3543 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3544 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3545 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3548 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3549 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3551 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3552 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3553 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3554 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3555 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3557 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3558 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3559 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3560 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3562 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3563 be the same on different OS.
3565 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3568 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3569 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3571 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3574 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3575 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3576 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3577 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3578 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3579 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3582 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3583 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3584 when Exim was called.
3586 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3587 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3589 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3590 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3591 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3592 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3594 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3595 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3596 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3597 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3600 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3601 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3602 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3604 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3605 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3606 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3608 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3611 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3612 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3613 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3614 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3615 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3616 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3617 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3618 values from the SRV records were lost.
3620 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3621 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3622 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3624 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3625 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3626 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3628 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3629 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3630 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3631 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3632 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3633 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3634 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3635 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3636 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3637 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3639 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3640 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3641 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3643 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3644 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3646 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3647 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3648 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3649 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3652 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3653 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3654 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3656 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3657 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3658 PH/23 above applies.
3660 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3661 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3662 (for which there is an explicit test).
3664 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3666 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3667 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3668 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3669 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3670 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3672 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3673 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3674 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3675 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3677 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3678 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3679 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3681 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3683 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3685 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3686 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3687 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3689 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3690 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3691 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3692 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3693 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3695 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3696 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3697 the message gets confusing).
3699 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3700 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3701 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3702 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3704 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3705 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3706 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3707 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3710 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3711 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3712 the different processes.
3714 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3716 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3718 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3719 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3721 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3722 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3724 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3725 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3726 messages matching specified criteria.
3728 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3730 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3731 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3733 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3734 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3735 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3736 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3737 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3738 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3739 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3740 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3741 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3742 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3744 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3745 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3746 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3748 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3750 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3751 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3752 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3753 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3754 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3755 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3756 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3759 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3760 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3762 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3764 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3766 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3768 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3769 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3770 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3771 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3772 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3773 size of the count of files.
3775 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3777 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3780 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3781 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3782 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3783 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3785 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3786 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3787 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3789 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3790 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3791 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3792 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3793 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3795 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3796 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3798 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3799 will now be deprecated.
3801 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3803 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3804 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3805 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3807 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3808 with very large, slow to parse queues
3810 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3812 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3814 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3815 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3816 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3819 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3820 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3821 Sieve code now uses this.
3823 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3824 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3826 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3827 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3829 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3831 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3832 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3833 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3834 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3835 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3837 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3838 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3839 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3840 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3842 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3844 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3846 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3847 is preferred over IPv4.
3849 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3850 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3851 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3852 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3853 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3854 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3855 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3857 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3858 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3859 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3861 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3863 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3864 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3865 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3866 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3867 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3868 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3869 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3870 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3871 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3872 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3873 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3875 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3876 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3877 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3883 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3885 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3886 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3888 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3889 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3890 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3892 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3894 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3897 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3900 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3901 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3902 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3905 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3906 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3908 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3909 inside the third argument.
3911 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3912 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3915 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3916 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3918 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3919 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3921 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3923 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3924 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3927 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3929 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3930 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3931 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3932 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3933 identical. For example:
3935 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3937 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3938 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3939 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3941 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3942 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3943 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3944 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3946 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3947 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3948 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3951 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3953 o fixes some comments
3954 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3955 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3956 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3957 and documents the missing references header update
3961 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3962 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
3965 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3966 Electronic Mail") by including:
3968 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3970 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3971 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
3972 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3973 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3974 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3976 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3978 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3980 The auto-replied keyword:
3982 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3983 message by an automatic process,
3985 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3987 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3988 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3990 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3991 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3994 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3995 to the default Received: header definition.
3997 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3999 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4000 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4001 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4003 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4004 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4005 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4007 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4008 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4009 and treats the condition as false.
4011 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4013 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4014 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4015 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4016 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4017 not changing the active code.
4019 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4020 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4022 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4023 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4025 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4028 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4029 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4030 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4031 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4032 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4033 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4034 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4035 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4036 the text comparison.
4038 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4039 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4040 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4041 The same fix has been applied.
4047 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4048 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4051 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4052 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4054 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4056 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4057 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4058 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4059 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4060 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4062 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4063 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4064 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4065 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4068 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4076 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4077 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4079 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4081 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4083 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4084 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4085 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4087 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4088 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4089 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4091 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4092 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4095 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4096 ${stat: expansion item.
4098 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4099 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4101 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4102 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4105 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4107 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4110 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4111 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4113 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4115 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4116 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4117 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4118 the end of the subprocess.
4120 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4121 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4122 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4123 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4124 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4126 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4128 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4130 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4131 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4133 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4135 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4137 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4138 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4141 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4143 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4144 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4145 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4147 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4148 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4150 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4151 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4153 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4154 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4156 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4157 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4159 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4160 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4161 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4162 contributed by a Radius user.
4164 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4165 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4167 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4168 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4170 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4173 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4174 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4177 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4178 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4179 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4180 header lines when this was not necessary.
4182 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4184 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4185 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4186 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4189 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4192 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4193 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4194 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4195 return code was incorrect.
4197 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4199 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4201 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4203 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4205 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4206 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4207 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4208 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4209 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4212 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4214 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4215 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4216 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4217 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4218 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4219 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4220 which is clearly wrong.
4222 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4224 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4225 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4226 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4229 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4230 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4232 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4234 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4235 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4237 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4238 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4240 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4241 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4243 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4244 recipients, not senders.
4246 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4247 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4249 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4251 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4253 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4254 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4255 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4256 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4258 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4260 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4261 clock is set back in time.
4263 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4264 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4266 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4267 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4269 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4270 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4273 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4274 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4277 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4280 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4282 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4283 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4284 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4286 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4287 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4288 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4289 helo verification defer as a failure.
4291 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4292 actual error message.
4298 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4300 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4301 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4302 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4303 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4305 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4307 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4308 can still be requested.
4310 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4311 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4312 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4313 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4315 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4316 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4317 circumstances, but probably never did.
4319 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4320 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4321 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4324 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4326 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4327 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4329 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4331 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4333 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4334 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4335 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4336 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4337 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4338 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4340 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4341 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4342 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4343 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4344 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4345 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4347 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4348 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4350 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4351 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4353 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4354 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4356 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4358 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4360 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4362 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4364 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4366 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4368 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4370 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4371 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4372 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4374 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4375 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4376 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4377 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4379 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4380 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4381 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4383 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4384 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4385 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4386 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4388 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4389 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4392 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4393 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4394 should work with maildirs and everything.
4396 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4397 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4399 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4402 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4403 function for BDB 4.3.
4405 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4407 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4408 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4411 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4412 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4413 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4414 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4415 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4416 formatting function string_vformat().
4418 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4419 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4420 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4421 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4422 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4423 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4424 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4425 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4427 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4428 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4431 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4432 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4434 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4435 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4436 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4437 test. It is now used for both.
4439 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4440 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4441 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4442 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4443 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4444 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4446 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4447 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4448 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4451 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4452 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4453 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4455 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4456 experimental DomainKeys support:
4458 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4459 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4460 the control was given.
4462 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4464 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4466 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4468 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4469 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4470 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4473 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4474 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4475 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4476 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4477 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4478 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4481 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4482 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4483 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4484 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4485 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4486 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4488 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4489 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4490 do -d+all out of habit.
4492 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4493 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4496 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4497 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4498 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4499 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4500 record types that Exim uses.
4502 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4503 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4504 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4505 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4506 non-existent file that was broken.
4508 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4509 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4511 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4512 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4513 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4515 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4517 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4518 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4519 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4520 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4521 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4524 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4525 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4526 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4527 at a slight CPU cost.
4529 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4530 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4532 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4535 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4537 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4538 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4544 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4545 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4547 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4549 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4551 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4552 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4554 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4555 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4556 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4557 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4558 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4559 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4562 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4563 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4564 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4565 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4568 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4569 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4570 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4571 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4572 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4573 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4574 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4577 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4578 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4580 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4581 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4582 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4583 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4584 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4585 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4587 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4588 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4589 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4590 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4592 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4595 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4596 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4598 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4599 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4600 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4601 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4604 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4606 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4607 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4609 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4610 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4611 to what was transported.)
4613 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4615 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4616 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4617 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4618 spamd_address settings.
4620 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4621 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4622 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4623 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4624 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4626 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4628 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4629 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4630 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4631 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4632 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4634 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4635 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4637 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4638 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4639 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4640 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4641 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4642 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4643 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4646 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4647 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4648 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4649 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4650 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4651 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4652 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4655 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4657 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4658 driver and ACL definitions.
4660 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4661 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4663 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4664 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4665 understands it better than I do:
4667 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4668 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4670 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4671 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4672 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4673 => three warnings about OTP not working
4674 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4676 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4677 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4678 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4679 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4681 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4682 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4684 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4685 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4686 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4688 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4689 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4692 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4693 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4696 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4697 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4698 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4700 warn !verify = sender
4701 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4703 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4704 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4706 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4708 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4709 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4711 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4712 nomenclature these days.)
4714 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4715 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4717 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4718 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4719 . First host does not offer TLS;
4720 . First host accepts first address;
4721 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4722 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4723 . Second host accepts second address.
4724 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4725 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4728 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4729 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4730 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4731 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4732 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4734 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4735 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4737 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4738 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4740 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4741 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4742 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4744 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4745 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4748 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4750 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4751 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4752 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4753 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4754 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4755 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4756 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4758 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4759 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4760 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4761 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4762 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4764 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4765 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4768 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4769 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4770 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4771 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4772 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4773 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4775 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4777 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4778 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4779 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4780 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4781 printable escape sequences.
4783 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4784 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4787 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4788 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4791 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4792 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4793 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4794 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4795 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4797 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4798 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4799 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4801 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4803 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4804 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4807 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4808 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4809 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4810 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4811 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4812 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4813 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4814 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4815 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4818 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4819 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4820 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4821 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4825 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4826 ----------------------------------------
4828 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4829 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4830 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4831 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4832 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4833 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4836 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
4837 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4838 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4839 historical information.
4845 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4847 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4848 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4850 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4851 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4854 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4855 filter fails to execute.
4857 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4858 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4859 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4860 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4861 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4863 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4865 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4866 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4867 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4868 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4870 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4871 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4872 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4873 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4874 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4876 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4878 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4880 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4881 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4882 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4883 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4885 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4886 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4887 sender verification.
4889 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4890 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4892 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4894 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4897 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4898 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4900 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4901 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4903 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4904 information about exactly what failed.
4906 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4908 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4909 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4910 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4912 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4913 It is now set to "smtps".
4915 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4916 ignore_target_hosts.
4918 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4919 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4920 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4921 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4924 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4925 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4926 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4928 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4929 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4930 wake it up if nothing else does.
4932 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4933 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4934 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4937 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4938 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4940 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4942 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4943 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4944 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4945 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4946 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4947 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4948 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4949 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4951 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4952 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4953 than one IP address.
4955 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4956 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4957 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4958 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4960 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4961 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4962 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4963 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4964 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4967 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4968 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4969 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4970 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4972 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4973 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4976 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4977 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4978 $sender_host_address.
4980 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4981 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4982 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4983 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4984 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4987 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4989 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4990 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4992 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4993 just the host names, not the priorities.
4995 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4996 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4997 controlled by a keyword.
4999 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5000 multiple records are returned.
5002 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5003 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5006 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5008 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5009 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5011 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5012 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5013 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5015 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5017 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5019 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5021 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5022 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5023 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5024 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5025 because the tests only now provoked it.
5027 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5028 (this can affect the format of dates).
5030 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5031 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5032 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5033 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5035 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5037 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5038 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5039 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5040 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5042 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5043 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5044 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5046 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5049 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5050 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5051 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5052 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5053 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5054 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5057 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5058 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5059 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5062 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5063 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5064 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5066 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5067 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5068 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5069 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5070 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5071 so I produce this patch..."
5073 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5074 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5077 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5078 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5079 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5080 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5083 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5085 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5086 long debug lines gets shown.
5088 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5089 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5091 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5093 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5094 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5095 of $primary_hostname.
5097 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5098 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5099 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5100 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5101 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5102 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5103 by change 4.50/55 above.
5105 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5106 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5107 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5108 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5109 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5110 running as the user.
5113 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5114 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5115 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5118 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5119 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5121 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5122 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5123 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5124 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5125 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5127 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5128 This has been fixed.
5130 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5131 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5132 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5133 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5136 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5138 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5139 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5140 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5141 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5143 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5144 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5146 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5147 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5148 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5150 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5151 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5152 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5155 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5156 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5157 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5159 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5160 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5161 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5162 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5164 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5165 during host lookups.
5167 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5168 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5170 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5172 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5173 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5174 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5175 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5176 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5179 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5180 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5182 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5183 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5184 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5186 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5188 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5189 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5190 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5191 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5192 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5193 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5196 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5197 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5198 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5199 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5200 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5202 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5205 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5207 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5208 "vacation" handling.
5210 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5211 OS variants using glibc.
5213 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5216 ----------------------------------------------------
5217 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5218 ----------------------------------------------------
5224 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5225 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5228 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5229 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5232 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5233 filter fails to execute.
5235 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5236 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5237 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5238 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5239 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5241 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5242 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5243 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5244 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5246 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5247 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5248 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5249 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5250 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5252 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5254 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5255 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5256 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5257 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5259 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5260 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5261 sender verification.
5263 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5264 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5266 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5267 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5269 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5270 ignore_target_hosts.
5272 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5273 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5274 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5275 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5278 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5279 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5280 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5282 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5283 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5284 wake it up if nothing else does.
5286 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5287 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5288 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5291 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5292 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5294 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5296 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5297 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5300 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5301 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5304 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5305 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5306 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5307 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5308 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5311 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5312 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5315 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5316 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5317 $sender_host_address.
5319 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5321 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5322 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5323 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5325 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5328 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5329 (this can affect the format of dates).
5331 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5332 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5333 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5334 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5336 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5337 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5338 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5340 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5341 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5342 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5343 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5345 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5346 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5347 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5349 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5352 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5353 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5354 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5355 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5356 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5357 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5360 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5361 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5362 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5363 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5366 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5367 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5368 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5369 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5370 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5371 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5372 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5374 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5375 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5376 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5377 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5378 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5379 running as the user.
5382 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5383 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5384 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5387 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5388 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5389 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5390 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5391 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5393 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5394 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5395 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5396 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5399 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5400 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5401 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5402 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5403 because the tests only now provoked it.
5409 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5410 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5411 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5412 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5413 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5414 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5415 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5417 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5418 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5421 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5423 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5425 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5426 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5429 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5430 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5431 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5432 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5433 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5435 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5436 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5438 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5440 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5442 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5445 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5446 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5448 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5449 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5450 affecting debugging statements).
5452 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5454 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5455 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5456 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5457 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5458 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5459 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5460 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5461 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5462 after the received time, and all would be well.
5464 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5465 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5466 condition in an expansion string.
5468 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5470 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5471 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5472 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5473 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5474 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5475 job under whatever limits there are.
5477 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5479 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5482 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5483 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5484 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5485 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5488 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5489 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5490 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5491 binary data in such strings.
5493 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5495 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5496 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5497 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5498 failure, which is pointless.
5500 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5502 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5504 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5505 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5506 Sender: header lines.
5508 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5509 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5510 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5512 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5513 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5514 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5515 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5516 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5519 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5520 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5521 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5522 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5523 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5525 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5526 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5527 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5530 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5531 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5533 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5534 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5536 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5538 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5540 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5542 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5545 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5547 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5549 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5550 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5551 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5552 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5554 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5555 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5561 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5562 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5563 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5565 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5566 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5567 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5568 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5569 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5570 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5572 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5573 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5574 verification failure".
5576 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5577 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5578 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5579 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5581 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5582 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5583 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5584 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5585 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5586 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5587 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5588 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5589 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5590 treated as a timeout.
5592 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5593 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5594 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5595 not set for Exim filters).
5597 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5598 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5599 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5601 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5603 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5604 try to make them clearer.
5606 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5607 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5609 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5611 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5613 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5614 only the Cygwin environment.
5616 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5617 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5618 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5619 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5620 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5622 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5623 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5624 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5625 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5626 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5627 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5628 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5630 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5631 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5633 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5635 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5636 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5637 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5639 To: susanne@some.where
5641 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5642 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5643 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5644 of addresses in From: header lines).
5646 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5647 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5648 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5650 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5651 treated as non-personal.
5653 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5654 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5656 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5658 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5660 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5661 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5662 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5664 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5665 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5667 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5668 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5669 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5670 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5671 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5672 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5674 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5675 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5676 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5677 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5678 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5679 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5680 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5681 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5683 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5685 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5686 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5688 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5689 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5690 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5692 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5693 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5695 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5696 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5697 rather than long int.
5699 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5701 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5707 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5708 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5709 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5710 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5711 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5712 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5718 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5719 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5721 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5722 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5723 socklen_t is defined.
5725 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5728 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5731 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5732 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5733 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5734 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5735 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5737 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5738 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5739 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5740 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5742 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5743 of flapping under certain conditions.
5745 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5746 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5747 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5749 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5751 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5753 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5754 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5755 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5756 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5758 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5759 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5760 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5761 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5762 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5763 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5764 preserved with the message after it was received.
5766 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5767 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5768 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5769 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5770 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5771 test suite worked just fine.
5773 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5774 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5775 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5777 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5778 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5781 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5782 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5783 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5784 does not fully solve it.
5786 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5787 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5788 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5789 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5790 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5792 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5793 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5794 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5796 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5797 string, for example:
5799 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5801 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5802 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5803 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5804 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5805 the routers could not see them.
5807 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5808 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5810 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5811 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5814 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5815 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5816 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5817 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5818 that needed quoting.
5820 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5821 was not being matched caselessly.
5823 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5826 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5827 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5828 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5829 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5830 when use_sender is false.
5832 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5834 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5836 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5838 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5839 the configuration file.
5841 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5842 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5844 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5846 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5847 bytes in the message body.
5849 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5850 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5853 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5855 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5857 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5858 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5859 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5860 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5867 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5868 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5870 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5871 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5872 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5873 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5874 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5876 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5877 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5879 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5880 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5881 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5883 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5884 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5885 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5887 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5890 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5891 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5892 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5893 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5894 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5895 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5896 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5902 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5903 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5904 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5905 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5906 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5907 default (and expected) setting.
5909 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5910 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5911 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5912 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5914 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5915 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5917 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5920 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5921 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5922 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5923 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5924 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5925 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5927 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5928 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5929 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5931 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5932 part (NOT match_host).
5934 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5936 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5937 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5938 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5939 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5940 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5941 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5942 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5943 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5944 the same named file.
5946 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5947 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5950 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5951 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5952 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5953 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5956 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5957 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5958 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5960 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5962 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5964 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5966 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5967 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5969 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5970 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5971 before starting the TLS session.
5973 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5975 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5976 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5978 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5979 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5980 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5981 colon in the middle).
5987 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5988 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5989 multiple configurations are in use.
5991 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5992 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5993 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5994 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5995 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5996 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5998 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5999 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6001 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6002 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6003 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6005 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6006 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6009 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6010 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6012 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6014 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6015 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6017 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6025 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6026 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6027 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6028 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6029 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6031 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6034 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6035 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6036 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6037 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6038 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6039 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6041 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6042 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6043 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6044 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6045 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6046 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6047 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6050 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6051 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6052 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6053 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6054 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6056 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6058 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6059 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6060 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6062 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6064 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6065 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6066 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6069 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6070 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6072 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6073 Three changes have been made:
6075 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6076 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6077 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6078 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6079 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6081 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6084 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6085 the modified behaviour.
6091 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6094 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6095 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6097 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6098 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6099 try to track down a specific problem.
6101 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6102 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6103 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6105 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6108 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6109 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6110 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6111 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6112 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6113 some earlier ones do not.
6115 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6117 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6118 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6119 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6120 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6121 address literals are enabled, of course).
6123 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6125 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6126 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6127 by a command such as
6131 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6133 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6135 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6136 remained set. It is now erased.
6138 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6139 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6141 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6142 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6143 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6144 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6145 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6146 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6147 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6148 appropriate error code.
6150 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6151 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6152 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6153 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6154 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6155 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6157 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6158 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6159 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6161 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6162 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6163 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6164 terminate the header.
6166 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6167 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6168 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6170 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6171 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6172 (4.30/29). In particular:
6174 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6177 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6178 to write a maildirsize file.
6180 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6181 the transport, the new value overrides.
6183 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6186 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6187 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6188 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6191 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6192 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6193 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6196 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6197 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6198 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6200 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6201 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6204 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6205 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6206 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6208 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6210 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6212 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6214 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6215 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6218 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6219 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6220 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6221 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6222 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6223 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6224 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6227 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6228 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6229 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6230 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6231 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6234 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6235 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6236 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6237 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6238 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6239 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6240 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6241 cached value only when the same options are set.
6243 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6245 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6246 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6247 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6248 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6249 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6251 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6252 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6253 it is clearly obsolete.
6255 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6258 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6259 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6260 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6263 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6264 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6265 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6266 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6267 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6269 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6270 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6271 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6272 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6274 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6276 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6278 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6279 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6282 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6283 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6284 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6285 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6286 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6287 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6290 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6291 with the -f command-line option.
6293 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6294 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6295 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6296 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6297 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6298 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6300 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6301 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6304 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6305 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6306 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6307 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6308 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6309 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6310 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6311 buffer is too small.
6313 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6314 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6316 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6317 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6318 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6319 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6320 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6321 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6322 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6323 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6324 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6326 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6327 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6328 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6330 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6331 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6334 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6335 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6336 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6337 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6338 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6340 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6341 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6342 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6343 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6346 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6348 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6350 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6351 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6353 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6354 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6355 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6357 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6358 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6359 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6360 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6361 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6363 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6364 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6365 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6366 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6367 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6368 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6369 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6371 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6372 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6373 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6374 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6375 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6376 the test of how many are available.
6378 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6379 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6380 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6381 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6382 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6383 new message is started.
6385 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6386 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6388 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6389 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6391 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6392 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6393 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6396 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6397 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6398 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6399 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6400 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6401 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6402 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6404 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6405 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6406 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6407 interpreted as octal.
6409 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6412 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6413 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6414 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6415 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6416 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6417 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6419 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6420 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6421 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6422 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6424 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6425 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6426 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6427 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6429 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6430 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6433 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6434 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6436 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6438 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6439 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6440 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6441 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6443 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6444 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6445 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6446 supplied", which is not helpful.
6448 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6449 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6450 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6452 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6453 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6454 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6455 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6456 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6457 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6458 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6459 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6461 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6462 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6463 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6464 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6465 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6467 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6468 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6469 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6470 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6471 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6472 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6474 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6475 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6476 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6478 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6480 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6481 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6482 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6485 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6487 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6488 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6489 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6490 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6491 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6492 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6493 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6494 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6496 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6497 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6498 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6499 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6500 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6502 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6505 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6506 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6507 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6508 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6509 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6510 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6511 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6512 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6513 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6519 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6520 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6521 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6523 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6526 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6527 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6528 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6530 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6531 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6532 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6533 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6534 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6535 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6537 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6538 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6539 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6540 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6541 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6542 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6543 the Exim test suite.
6545 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6546 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6547 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6548 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6550 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6551 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6552 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6553 specify it in this variable.
6555 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6556 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6557 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6558 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6560 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6561 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6562 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6563 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6565 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6566 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6567 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6568 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6569 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6571 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6573 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6576 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6577 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6578 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6579 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6580 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6582 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6583 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6585 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6586 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6587 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6588 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6589 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6591 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6592 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6594 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6595 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6596 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6598 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6599 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6601 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6602 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6604 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6605 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6606 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6608 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6609 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6611 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6612 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6613 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6614 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6616 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6618 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6619 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6620 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6621 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6623 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6625 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6626 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6628 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6630 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6631 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6632 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6633 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6634 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6635 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6637 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6639 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6640 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6643 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6645 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6646 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6648 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6649 550 Sender verify failed
6651 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6652 the final line of the response.
6654 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6655 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6656 all other user lookups.
6658 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6661 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6662 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6663 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6664 result into an int without checking.
6666 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6667 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6668 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6670 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6671 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6672 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6673 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6675 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6678 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6679 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6681 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6682 to the empty sender.
6684 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6685 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6686 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6687 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6688 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6689 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6690 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6693 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6694 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6695 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6696 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6699 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6700 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6702 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6705 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6706 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6708 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6710 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6711 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6714 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6715 as soon as it is encountered.
6717 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6719 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6722 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6723 recognizes a tab character.
6725 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6726 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6727 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6728 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6730 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6732 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6735 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6737 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6739 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6740 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6743 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6744 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6745 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6746 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6747 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6749 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6750 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6752 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6753 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6754 list (.included file names were always shown).
6756 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6757 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6758 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6761 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6762 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6764 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6766 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6768 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6770 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6771 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6772 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6773 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6774 failures to open the logs.
6776 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6777 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6778 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6779 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6780 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6781 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6782 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6788 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6789 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6790 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6793 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6794 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6795 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6797 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6798 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6799 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6801 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6802 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6803 causing some misleading effects.
6805 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6806 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6807 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6809 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6810 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6811 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6812 queue-runner function directly.
6818 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6821 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6822 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6823 was always written to the default place.
6825 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6826 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6827 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6829 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6831 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6833 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6834 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6835 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6837 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6838 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6841 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6842 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6843 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6845 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6846 command line option is disabled.
6848 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6849 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6851 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6853 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6855 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6856 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6858 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6860 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6861 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6862 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6863 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6864 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6865 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6867 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6868 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6871 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6872 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6874 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6875 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6877 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6878 received was valid base64.
6880 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6881 name of the variable that was being set.
6883 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6885 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6886 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6887 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6888 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6889 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6890 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6892 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6894 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6895 nor realm was specified.
6897 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6898 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6899 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6900 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6902 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6903 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6904 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6906 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6907 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6908 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6910 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6911 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6912 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6913 some systems use these upper case variants.
6915 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6916 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6917 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6918 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6920 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6922 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6923 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6925 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6926 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6929 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6931 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6932 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6933 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6934 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6936 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6939 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6940 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6941 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6943 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6944 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6946 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6947 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6948 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6949 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6951 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6952 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6953 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6955 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6957 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6958 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6959 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6960 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6963 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6964 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6965 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6967 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6969 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6970 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6972 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6973 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6975 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6976 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6977 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6978 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6979 when emails are that large.
6986 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6987 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6989 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6990 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6991 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6993 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6994 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6995 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6997 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6998 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6999 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7000 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7001 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7003 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7004 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7005 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7006 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7007 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7010 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7011 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7012 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7013 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7014 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7015 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7016 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7017 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7018 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7019 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7020 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7021 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7022 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7023 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7025 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7026 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7029 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7030 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7031 error should be diagnosed.
7033 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7034 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7035 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7036 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7037 appeared instead of "NULL".
7039 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7040 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7041 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7042 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7043 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7044 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7047 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7048 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7049 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7055 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7056 or receiver verification errors.
7058 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7061 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7062 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7063 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7064 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7066 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7067 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7068 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7069 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7070 shouldn't happen again.
7072 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7073 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7074 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7076 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7077 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7079 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7081 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7082 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7084 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7085 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7088 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7089 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7090 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7092 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7093 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7094 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7095 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7097 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7098 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7099 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7100 to define what should happen).
7102 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7103 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7104 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7106 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7108 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7110 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7111 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7113 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7114 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7115 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7116 structure in all cases.
7118 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7119 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7120 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7121 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7123 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7124 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7127 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7128 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7130 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7131 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7133 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7134 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7135 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7137 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7138 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7139 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7141 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7142 the book and for uniformity.
7144 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7146 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7147 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7148 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7149 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7150 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7151 non-existent command as the problem.
7153 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7154 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7155 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7157 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7159 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7160 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7161 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7163 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7164 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7165 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7166 timestamps using strftime().
7168 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7169 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7171 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7172 transport-time rewrites.
7174 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7175 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7176 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7177 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7179 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7180 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7182 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7183 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7184 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7185 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7188 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7189 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7190 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7191 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7192 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7193 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7194 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7196 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7197 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7198 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7199 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7200 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7202 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7203 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7204 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7205 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7206 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7207 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7208 remaining text gets split now.
7210 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7211 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7212 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7213 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7215 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7216 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7217 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7218 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7221 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7222 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7223 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7224 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7225 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7226 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7227 passed through if needed.
7229 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7230 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7231 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7232 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7233 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7234 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7236 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7237 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7238 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7239 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7240 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7242 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7243 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7244 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7245 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7246 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7248 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7249 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7252 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7253 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7254 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7255 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7256 mayhem of various kinds.
7258 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7259 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7260 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7261 the right test for positive values.
7263 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7264 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7265 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7266 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7267 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7268 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7269 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7270 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7271 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7272 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7275 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7278 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7279 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7282 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7283 the existing equality matching.
7285 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7286 dealing with inode numbers.
7288 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7289 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7290 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7292 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7293 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7294 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7295 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7298 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7299 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7300 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7301 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7302 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7303 relay addresses has also been removed.
7305 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7307 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7308 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7309 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7311 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7312 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7313 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7314 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7315 processing applies to CR:
7317 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7318 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7320 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7321 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7322 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7323 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7325 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7326 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7327 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7329 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7330 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7331 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7332 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7333 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7334 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7337 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7340 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7341 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7342 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7343 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7346 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7348 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7350 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7352 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7353 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7354 not considered personal.
7356 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7358 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7360 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7362 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7363 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7364 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7365 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7366 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7367 header lines, and spool format errors.
7369 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7370 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7371 for more flexibility.
7373 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7374 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7375 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7377 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7380 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7381 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7382 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7383 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7384 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7385 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7386 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7387 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7388 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7390 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7391 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7392 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7393 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7394 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7395 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7396 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7398 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7399 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7400 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7402 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7403 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7404 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7405 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7406 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7407 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7408 instead of killing the process with assert().
7410 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7411 than Unicode encoding.
7413 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7414 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7415 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7416 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7418 77. Added process_log_path.
7420 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7421 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7423 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7424 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7426 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7427 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7428 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7430 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7431 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7432 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7433 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7434 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7437 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7438 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7441 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7442 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7443 they will be used during message reception.
7449 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.