1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 JH/01 Support list of dkim results in the dkim_status ACL condition, making
9 it more usable in the data ACL.
11 JH/02 Bug 3040: Handle error on close of the spool data file during reception.
12 Previously This was only logged, on the assumption that errors would be
13 seen for a previous fflush(). However, a fuse filesystem has been
14 reported as showing this an error for the fclose(). The spool is now in
15 an uncertain state, and we have logged and responded acceptance. Change
16 this to respond with a temp-reject, wipe spoolfiles, and log the error
19 JH/03 Bug 3030: Fix handling of DNS servfail respons for DANE TLSA. When hit
20 during a recipient verify callout, a QUIT command was attempted on the
21 now-closed callout channel, causing a paniclog entry.
23 JH/04 Bug 3039: Fix handling of of an empty log_reject_target, with
24 a connection_reject log_selector, under tls_on_connect. Previously
25 with this combination, when the connect ACL rejected, a spurious
26 paniclog entry was made.
28 JH/05 Fix TLS resumption for TLS-on-connect. This was broken by the advent
29 of loadbalancer-detection for resumption, in 4.96 - which tries to
30 use the EHLO response. SMTPS does not have one at the time it is starting
31 TLS. Change the default for the smtp transport host_name_extract option
32 to be a static string, for TLS-on-connect cases; meaning that resumption
33 will always be attempted (unless deliberately overriden).
35 JH/06 Bug 3054: Fix dnsdb lookup for a TXT record with multiple chunks, with a
36 chunk-separator specification. This was broken by hardening introduced
39 JH/07 Bug 3050: Fix -bp for old message_id format spoolfiles. Previously it
40 included the -H with the id; this also messed up exiqgrep.
42 JH/08 Bug 3056: Tighten up parsing of DKIM DNS records. Previously, whitespace
43 was not properly skipped and empty elements would cause mis-parsing.
44 Tighten parsing of DKIM header records. Previously, all but lowercase
45 alpha chars would be ignored in potential tag names.
47 JH/09 Bug 3057: Add heuristic for spotting mistyped IPv6 addresses in lists
48 being searched. Previously we only had one for IPv4 addresses. Per the
49 documentation, the error results by default in a no-match result for the
50 list. It is logged if the unknown_in_list log_selector is used.
52 JH/10 Bug 3058: Ensure that a failing expansion in a router "set" option defers
53 the routing operation. Previously it would silently stop routing the
56 JH/11 Bug 3046: Fix queue-runs. Previously, the arrivel of a notification or
57 info-request event close in time to a scheduled run timer could result in
58 the latter being missed, and no further queue scheduled runs being
59 initiated. This ouwld be more likely on high-load systems.
61 JH/12 Refuse to accept a line "dot, LF" as end-of-DATA unless operating in
62 LF-only mode (as detected from the first header line). Previously we did
63 accept that in (normal) CRLF mode; this has been raised as a possible
64 attack scenario (under the name "smtp smuggling").
71 JH/01 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
72 SMTP connection" log lines.
74 JH/02 Option default value updates:
75 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
76 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
78 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
80 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
81 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
82 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
84 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
85 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
86 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
89 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
90 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
92 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
93 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
94 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
96 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
97 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
98 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
99 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
100 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
102 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
103 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
106 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
107 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
109 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
110 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
111 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
113 HS/01 Bug 2728: Introduce EDITME option "DMARC_API" to work around incompatible
114 API changes in libopendmarc.
116 JH/12 Bug 2930: Fix daemon startup. When started from any process apart from
117 pid 1, in the normal "background daemon" mode, having to drop process-
118 group leadership also lost track of needing to create listener sockets.
120 JH/13 Bug 2929: Fix using $recipients after ${run...}. A change made for 4.96
121 resulted in the variable appearing empty. Find and fix by Ruben Jenster.
123 JH/14 Bug 2933: Fix regex substring match variables for null matches. Since 4.96
124 a capture group which obtained no text (eg. "(abc)*" matching zero
125 occurrences) could cause a segfault if the corresponding $<n> was
128 JH/15 Fix argument parsing for ${run } expansion. Previously, when an argument
129 included a close-brace character (eg. it itself used an expansion) an
132 JH/16 Move running the smtp connect ACL to before, for TLS-on-connect ports,
133 starting TLS. Previously it was after, meaning that attackers on such
134 ports had to be screened using the host_reject_connection main config
135 option. The new sequence aligns better with the STARTTLS behaviour, and
136 permits defences against crypto-processing load attacks, even though it
137 is strictly an incompatible change.
138 Also, avoid sending any SMTP fail response for either the connect ACL
139 or host_reject_connection, for TLS-on-connect ports.
141 JH/17 Permit the ACL "encrypted" condition to be used in a HELO/EHLO ACL,
142 Previously this was not permitted, but it makes reasonable sense.
143 While there, restore a restriction on using it from a connect ACL; given
144 the change JH/16 it could only return false (and before 4.91 was not
147 JH/18 Fix a fencepost error in logging. Previously (since 4.92) when a log line
148 was exactly sized compared to the log buffer, a crash occurred with the
149 misleading message "bad memory reference; pool not found".
150 Found and traced by Jasen Betts.
152 JH/19 Bug 2911: Fix a recursion in DNS lookups. Previously, if the main option
153 dns_again_means_nonexist included an element causing a DNS lookup which
154 itself returned DNS_AGAIN, unbounded recursion occurred. Possible results
155 included (though probably not limited to) a process crash from stack
156 memory limit, or from excessive open files. Replace this with a paniclog
157 whine (as this is likely a configuration error), and returning
160 JH/20 Bug 2954: (OpenSSL) Fix setting of explicit EC curve/group. Previously
161 this always failed, probably leading to the usual downgrade to in-clear
164 JH/21 Fix TLSA lookups. Previously dns_again_means_nonexist would affect
165 SERVFAIL results, which breaks the downgrade resistance of DANE. Change
166 to not checking that list for these lookups.
168 JH/22 Bug 2434: Add connection-elapsed "D=" element to more connection
171 JH/23 Fix crash in string expansions. Previously, if an empty variable was
172 immediately followed by an expansion operator, a null-indirection read
173 was done, killing the process.
175 JH/24 Bug 2997: When built with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO, bounce messages can
176 include an SMTP response string which is longer than that supported
177 by the delivering transport. Alleviate by wrapping such lines before
180 JH/25 Bug 2827: Restrict size of References: header in bounce messages to 998
181 chars (RFC limit). Previously a limit of 12 items was made, which with
182 a not-impossible References: in the message being bounced could still
183 be over-large and get stopped in the transport.
185 JH/26 For a ${readsocket } in TLS mode, send a TLS Close Alert before the TCP
186 close. Previously a bare socket close was done.
188 JH/27 Fix ${srs_encode ..}. Previously it would give a bad result for one day
191 JH/28 Bug 2996: Fix a crash in the smtp transport. When finding that the
192 message being considered for delivery was already being handled by
193 another process, and having an SMTP connection already open, the function
194 to close it tried to use an uninitialized variable. This would afftect
195 high-volume sites more, especially when running mailing-list-style loads.
196 Pollution of logs was the major effect, as the other process delivered
197 the message. Found and partly investigated by Graeme Fowler.
199 JH/29 Change format of the internal ID used for message identification. The old
200 version only supported 31 bits for a PID element; the new 64 (on systems
201 which can use Base-62 encoding, which is all currently supported ones
202 but not Darwin (MacOS) or Cygwin, which have case-insensitive filesystems
203 and must use Base-36). The new ID is 23 characters rather than 16, and is
204 visible in various places - notably logs, message headers, and spool file
205 names. Various of the ancillary utilities also have to know the format.
206 As well as the expanded PID portion, the sub-second part of the time
207 recorded in the ID is expanded to support finer precision. Theoretically
208 this permits a receive rate from a single comms channel of better than the
210 The major timestamp part of the ID is not changed; at 6 characters it is
211 usable until about year 3700.
212 Updating from previously releases is fully supported: old-format spool
213 files are still usable, and the utilities support both formats. New
214 message will use the new format. The one hints-DB file type which uses
215 message-IDs (the transport wait- DB) will be discarded if an old-format ID
216 is seen; new ones will be built with only new-format IDs.
217 Optionally, a utility can be used to convert spool files from old to new,
218 but this is only an efficiency measure not a requirement for operation
219 Downgrading from new to old requires running a provided utility, having
220 first stopped all operations. This will convert any spool files from new
221 back to old (losing time-precision and PID information) and remove any
222 wait- hints databases.
224 JH/30 Bug 3006: Fix handling of JSON strings having embedded commas. Previously
225 we treated them as item separators when parsing for a list item, but they
226 need to be protected by the doublequotes. While there, add handling for
229 JH/31 Bug 2998: Fix ${utf8clean:...} to disallow UTF-16 surrogate codepoints.
230 Found and fixed by Jasen Betts. No testcase for this as my usual text
231 editor insists on emitting only valid UTF-8.
233 JH/32 Fix "tls_dhparam = none" under GnuTLS. At least with 3.7.9 this gave
234 a null-indirection SIGSEGV for the receive process.
236 JH/33 Fix free for live variable $value created by a ${run ...} expansion during
237 -bh use. Internal checking would spot this and take a panic.
239 JH/34 Bug 3013: Fix use of $recipients within arguments for ${run...}.
240 In 4.96 this would expand to empty.
242 JH/35 Bug 3014: GnuTLS: fix expiry date for an auto-generated server
243 certificate. Find and fix by Andreas Metzler.
245 JH/36 Add ARC info to DMARC hostory records.
247 JH/37 Bug 3016: Avoid sending DSN when message was accepted under fakereject
248 or fakedefer. Previously the sender could discover that the message
249 had in fact been accepted.
251 JH/38 Taint-track intermediate values from the peer in multi-stage authentation
252 sequences. Previously the input was not noted as being tainted; notably
253 this resulted in behaviour of LOGIN vs. PLAIN being inconsistent under
254 bad coding of authenticators.
256 JH/39 Bug 3023: Fix crash induced by some combinations of zero-length strings
257 and ${tr...}. Found and diagnosed by Heiko Schlichting.
259 JH/40 Bug 2999: Fix a possible OOB write in the external authenticator, which
260 could be triggered by externally-supplied input. Found by Trend Micro.
263 JH/41 Bug 3000: Fix a possible OOB write in the SPA authenticator, which could
264 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
267 JH/42 Bug 3001: Fix a possible OOB read in the SPA authenticator, which could
268 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
271 JH/43 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
272 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
273 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
275 JH/44 Bug 3033: Harden dnsdb lookups against crafted DNS responses.
278 HS/02 Fix string_is_ip_address() CVE-2023-42117 (Bug 3031)
284 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
285 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
286 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
289 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
290 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
292 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
293 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
294 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
295 not be modified by local-scan code.
297 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
298 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
300 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
301 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
304 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
305 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
307 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
308 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
311 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
312 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
313 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
315 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
316 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
317 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
319 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
320 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
321 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
322 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
323 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
324 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
325 Assorted crashes happen.
327 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
328 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
329 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
332 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
333 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
334 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
335 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
337 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
338 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
339 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
342 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
344 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
345 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
348 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
349 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
350 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
352 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
353 result of expansion operators and items.
355 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
356 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
357 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
358 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
360 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
362 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
363 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
364 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
365 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
368 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
369 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
371 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
372 Previously only the domain part was returned.
374 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
375 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
376 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
377 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
379 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
380 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
381 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
382 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
384 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
385 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
386 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
387 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
388 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
391 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
392 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
393 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
395 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
396 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
397 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
398 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
400 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
401 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
402 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
403 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
405 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
406 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
407 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
408 Previously only the server IP was used.
410 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
411 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
412 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
413 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
415 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
416 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
417 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
419 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
420 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
421 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
424 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
425 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
427 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
428 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
434 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
435 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
436 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
438 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
439 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
440 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
441 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
443 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
444 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
445 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
446 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
447 so could be handling tainted values.
449 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
450 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
451 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
453 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
454 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
455 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
458 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
459 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
460 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
461 to align better with RFC 6125.
463 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
464 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
465 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
466 by adding a release action in that path.
468 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
469 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
470 dynamically-created buffers.
472 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
473 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
474 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
475 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
477 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
478 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
479 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
480 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
482 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
483 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
484 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
486 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
487 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
488 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
489 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
491 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
492 excluded, not matching the documentation.
494 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
495 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
497 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
498 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
499 this was a coding error.
501 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
502 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
503 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
504 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
505 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
506 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
507 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
509 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
510 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
511 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
512 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
514 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
515 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
516 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
517 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
518 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
520 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
521 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
524 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
525 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
526 domain-parking registrar.
528 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
529 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
530 after removing the newline.
532 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
533 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
534 option set, which was previously used.
536 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
539 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
540 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
541 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
542 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
544 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
545 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
546 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
547 exim.dev.20160529.3).
549 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
550 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
551 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
553 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
554 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
555 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
558 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
559 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
560 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
562 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
563 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
564 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
565 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
568 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
569 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
570 there, handle PRX and TFO.
572 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
573 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
574 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
575 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
576 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
578 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
579 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
580 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
581 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
584 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
585 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
587 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
590 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
591 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
592 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
593 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
594 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
596 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
598 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
599 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
600 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
601 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
602 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
603 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
605 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
606 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
608 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
609 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
610 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
612 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
613 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
616 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
617 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
618 of a new variable: $auth4.
620 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
621 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
622 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
623 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
624 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
626 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
627 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
628 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
629 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
631 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
632 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
633 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
635 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
636 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
637 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
638 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
641 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
642 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
643 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
646 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
647 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
648 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
649 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
651 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
652 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
654 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
655 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
656 looked as if if might be one.
658 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
659 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
660 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
661 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
662 messages can show the proxy information.
664 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
665 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
666 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
667 "queue_time_exclusive".
669 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
670 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
671 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
673 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
674 making it unusable in complex expressions.
676 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
677 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
680 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
682 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
684 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
686 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
687 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
688 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
689 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
691 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
692 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
694 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
695 better. Reported by Qualys.
697 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
698 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
701 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
703 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
706 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
708 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
709 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
710 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
711 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
713 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
714 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
716 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
717 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
718 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
719 mode until after various protocol state checks.
720 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
722 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
724 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
725 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
727 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
730 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
731 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
732 executed child processes (if any).
734 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
737 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
738 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
739 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
740 been reported on other platforms.
742 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
744 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
745 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
746 Not supported on Solaris 10.
748 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
749 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
750 since fakereject was originally introduced.
752 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
753 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
755 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
756 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
757 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
760 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
761 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
762 which only permit IP addresses.
768 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
769 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
770 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
772 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
774 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
775 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
778 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
779 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
780 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
782 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
784 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
786 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
787 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
788 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
790 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
791 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
792 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
794 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
795 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
797 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
798 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
801 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
802 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
803 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
804 should both provide the file and set the option.
805 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
807 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
808 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
810 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
811 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
812 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
813 Authentication-Results: header.
815 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
816 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
817 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
818 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
820 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
821 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
822 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
823 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
824 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
825 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
826 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
828 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
829 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
830 copies while it is still usable.
832 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
833 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
834 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
836 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
837 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
839 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
840 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
841 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
842 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
844 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
845 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
846 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
849 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
850 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
851 - the pipe transport command
852 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
853 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
855 - paths used by single-key lookups
856 Previously this was permitted.
858 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
859 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
860 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
861 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
863 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
864 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
865 support larger malloc requests.
867 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
868 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
869 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
870 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
872 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
873 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
874 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
875 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
878 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
879 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
880 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
881 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
882 data being length-specified.
884 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
885 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
886 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
887 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
889 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
890 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
891 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
892 not being properly tracked.
894 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
895 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
896 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
897 minute could be seen.
899 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
900 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
901 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
903 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
904 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
906 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
907 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
910 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
912 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
913 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
915 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
916 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
917 filesystem as sufficient validation.
919 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
920 argument is supplied.
922 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
923 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
924 access under Exim's current working directory.
926 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
927 Previously no event was raised.
929 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
930 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
931 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
934 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
935 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
936 the size of the signature hash.
938 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
939 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
941 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
942 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
943 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
944 dropped between messages.
946 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
947 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
948 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
949 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
951 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
952 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
953 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
954 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
955 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
956 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
957 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
958 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
959 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
961 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
962 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
963 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
965 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
966 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
973 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
974 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
976 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
977 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
980 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
983 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
985 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
987 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
988 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
990 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
991 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
992 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
993 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
994 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
995 suitably configured).
997 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
998 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
1000 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
1001 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
1004 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
1005 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
1007 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
1008 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
1009 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
1010 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
1013 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
1014 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
1015 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
1017 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
1020 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
1021 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
1023 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
1024 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
1025 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
1026 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
1029 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1030 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
1031 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
1032 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
1033 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
1035 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1036 shared (NFS) environment.
1038 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
1039 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
1042 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
1043 on some platforms for bit 31.
1045 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
1046 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
1047 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
1048 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
1049 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
1050 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
1051 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
1052 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
1054 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
1056 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
1057 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
1059 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
1060 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
1063 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
1064 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
1067 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
1068 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
1069 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
1072 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
1073 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
1074 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
1076 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
1077 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
1078 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
1079 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
1080 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
1082 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
1085 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
1086 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
1087 be requested on all coneections.
1089 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
1090 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
1092 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
1094 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
1095 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
1096 one for these; the option was ignored.
1098 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
1099 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
1100 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
1101 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
1103 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
1104 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
1105 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
1108 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
1109 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
1110 error ignored was made.
1112 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
1114 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
1115 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
1116 values, to catch one form of exploit.
1118 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
1119 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
1120 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
1122 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
1123 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
1126 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
1127 them in our smtp response.
1129 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
1130 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
1131 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
1132 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
1133 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
1135 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
1136 link count into consideration.
1138 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
1139 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
1141 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
1142 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
1143 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
1146 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
1148 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
1150 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
1152 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
1153 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
1154 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
1155 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
1157 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
1159 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
1160 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
1163 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
1164 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
1165 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
1167 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
1168 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
1169 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
1171 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
1172 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
1173 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
1174 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
1175 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
1176 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
1177 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
1178 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
1180 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
1181 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
1182 resulted in an indefinite loop.
1184 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
1185 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
1186 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
1188 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
1189 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1196 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1197 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1199 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1200 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1202 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1203 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1204 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1206 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1207 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1208 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1210 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1211 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1212 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1213 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1214 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1217 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1218 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1220 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1221 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1222 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1223 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1224 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1225 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1226 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1228 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1229 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1231 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1234 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1235 Previously this would segfault.
1237 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1240 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1241 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1242 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1243 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1244 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1245 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1247 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1249 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1250 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1251 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1252 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1254 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1256 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1257 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1258 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1259 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1261 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1263 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1265 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1266 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1267 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1269 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1270 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1271 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1273 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1275 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1276 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1277 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1278 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1280 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1281 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1282 promised '?' replacement.
1284 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1286 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1287 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1288 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1289 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1290 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1292 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1293 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1294 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1296 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1297 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1298 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1300 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1301 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1302 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1304 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1305 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1306 hope that is portable enough.
1308 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1309 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1310 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1311 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1313 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1314 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1315 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1317 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1318 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1319 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1320 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1322 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1323 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1325 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1326 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1327 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1328 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1330 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1331 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1332 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1334 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1335 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1336 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1337 the previous G, M, k.
1339 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1340 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1343 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1344 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1345 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1346 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1348 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1349 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1351 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1352 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1353 off past the nul-terimation.
1355 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1356 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1357 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1358 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1359 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1361 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1363 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1364 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1365 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1368 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1369 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1371 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1372 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1373 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1375 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1376 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1377 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1379 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1380 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1386 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1387 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1388 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1389 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1390 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1391 be defined in redis_servers.
1393 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1394 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1396 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1397 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1398 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1399 extant use locations.
1401 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1402 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1404 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1405 Previously only the last row was returned.
1407 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1408 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1409 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1410 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1413 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1414 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1415 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1416 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1417 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1418 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1419 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1420 Main pool for expansions.
1421 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1422 active in the testsuite.
1423 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1425 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1426 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1427 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1428 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1431 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1432 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1435 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1436 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1437 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1439 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1440 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1441 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1443 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1444 rows affected is given instead).
1446 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1447 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1449 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1450 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1451 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1452 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1453 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1455 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1456 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1457 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1459 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1460 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1461 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1462 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1465 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1466 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1467 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1470 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1472 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1473 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1475 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1476 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1477 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1479 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1480 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1481 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1484 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1485 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1487 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1488 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1489 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1491 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1492 for the build is renamed.
1494 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1495 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1496 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1498 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1499 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1500 result replacing the original.
1502 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1503 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1504 and the resources needed to be freed.
1506 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1508 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1511 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1512 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1513 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1514 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1516 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1517 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1519 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1520 newer versions of the scanner.
1522 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1523 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1524 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1525 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1526 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1527 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1528 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1530 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1531 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1532 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1533 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1534 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1535 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1536 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1537 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1538 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1539 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1541 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1542 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1544 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1546 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1547 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1549 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1550 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1552 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1553 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1554 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1556 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1557 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1558 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1559 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1561 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1562 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1565 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1566 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1568 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1569 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1570 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1571 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1572 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1574 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1575 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1578 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1579 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1581 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1584 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1585 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1586 "bare" representation.
1588 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1589 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1590 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1591 corrupted the output.
1597 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1598 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1599 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1600 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1602 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1603 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1605 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1606 This permits better logging.
1608 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1609 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1610 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1611 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1612 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1613 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1615 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1616 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1619 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1620 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1621 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1623 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1624 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1626 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1627 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1628 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1629 client, there is no benefit for these.
1630 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1631 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1632 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1635 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1636 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1638 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1639 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1640 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1642 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1643 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1645 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1646 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1647 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1648 signature and again for transmission.
1650 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1651 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1652 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1654 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1655 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1656 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1657 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1658 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1659 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1660 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1662 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1663 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1664 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1665 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1667 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1668 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1669 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1670 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1671 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1672 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1675 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1676 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1677 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1678 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1681 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1682 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1683 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1684 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1687 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1688 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1691 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1692 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1693 banner-time rejection.
1695 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1698 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1699 is the name of a transport.
1702 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1704 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1705 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1707 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1708 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1709 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1712 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1713 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1714 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1715 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1717 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1718 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1719 initial verify call returned a defer.
1721 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1722 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1724 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1725 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1727 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1728 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1730 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1731 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1733 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1734 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1737 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1738 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1740 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1741 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1742 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1744 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1745 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1746 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1747 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1749 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1750 and confused the parent.
1752 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1753 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1755 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1758 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1759 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1760 out-of-order delivery.
1762 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1763 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1764 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1767 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1768 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1771 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1772 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1773 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1775 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1776 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1777 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1778 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1779 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1780 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1782 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1783 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1784 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1786 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1787 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1788 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1790 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1791 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1792 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1793 though a different problem.
1799 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1800 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1802 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1804 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1805 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1807 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1808 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1810 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1811 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1812 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1813 before acknowledging the chunk.
1815 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1816 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1817 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1819 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1820 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1821 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1824 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1825 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1826 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1828 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1829 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1831 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1832 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1833 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1834 body hash calculated value.
1836 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1837 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1838 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1840 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1842 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1843 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1845 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1846 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1847 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1849 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1850 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1851 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1852 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1853 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1854 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1856 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1857 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1858 past that check, despite the cost.
1860 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1861 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1862 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1864 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1865 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1866 TLS library to consume.
1868 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1870 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1872 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1873 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1874 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1875 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1876 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1877 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1878 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1880 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1882 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1884 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1885 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1886 should be warning-free.
1888 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1890 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1891 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1893 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1894 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1895 general solution here.
1897 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1898 already-broken messages in the queue.
1900 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1902 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1908 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1909 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1911 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1912 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1913 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1915 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1916 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1917 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1918 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1919 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1920 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1921 if one fails this test.
1922 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1923 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1925 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1926 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1928 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1929 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1931 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1932 in rewrites and routers.
1934 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1935 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1937 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1938 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1940 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1942 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1945 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1946 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1947 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1948 connection after a verify cache hit.
1949 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1951 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1952 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1954 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1955 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1956 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1957 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1958 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1960 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1961 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1963 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1964 Previously they were not counted.
1966 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1967 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1968 that needed the lookup.
1970 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1971 distinguished as "(=".
1973 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1974 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1976 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1978 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1979 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1981 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1982 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1984 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1985 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1988 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1989 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1990 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1991 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1993 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1995 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1996 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1997 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1999 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
2000 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
2001 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
2004 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
2005 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
2006 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
2009 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
2010 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
2011 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
2013 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
2014 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
2017 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
2019 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
2020 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
2022 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
2023 are not in the system include path.
2025 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
2026 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
2027 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
2028 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
2030 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
2031 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
2032 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
2034 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
2036 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
2037 an incoming connection.
2039 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
2042 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
2043 fallback to "prime256v1".
2045 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
2046 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
2052 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
2053 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
2054 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
2055 client dropping the TLS connection.
2057 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
2058 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
2060 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
2061 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
2062 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
2063 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
2066 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
2067 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
2068 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
2069 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
2070 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
2071 check on the next write.
2073 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
2074 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
2075 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
2076 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
2077 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
2079 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
2080 mime_regex ACL conditions.
2082 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
2083 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
2084 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
2086 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
2087 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
2088 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
2089 an authenticate fail is not an error.
2091 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
2092 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
2094 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
2095 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
2097 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
2098 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
2099 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
2102 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
2104 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
2106 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
2108 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
2109 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
2111 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
2112 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
2114 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
2116 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
2117 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
2119 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
2121 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
2122 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
2124 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
2126 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
2127 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
2128 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
2129 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
2130 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
2131 they will retry in-clear.
2132 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
2133 at installation time.
2135 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
2136 with the $config_file variable.
2138 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
2139 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
2140 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
2141 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
2142 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
2144 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
2145 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
2146 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
2147 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
2148 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
2150 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
2152 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
2153 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
2154 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
2155 list order is no longer honoured.
2157 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
2158 for DKIM processing.
2160 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2161 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
2163 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2164 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
2165 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
2166 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
2168 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
2169 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
2171 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
2172 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
2174 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
2175 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
2177 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
2179 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
2180 cached by the daemon.
2182 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2183 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
2185 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
2186 keys are given for lookup.
2188 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
2189 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
2190 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2191 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2193 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2194 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2195 server-side so match that on older versions.
2197 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2198 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2199 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2201 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2202 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2204 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2205 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2206 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2207 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2208 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2209 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2210 initial truncated version.
2212 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2214 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2216 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2217 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2219 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2221 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2223 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2224 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2227 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2228 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2231 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2232 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2234 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2235 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2238 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2239 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2240 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2242 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2243 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2244 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2245 extraction. Accept either.
2251 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2254 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2256 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2259 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2260 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2261 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2262 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2264 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2265 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2266 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2268 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2269 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2270 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2273 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2276 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2277 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2278 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2279 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2280 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2282 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2283 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2284 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2286 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2288 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2289 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2291 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2292 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2294 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2297 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2298 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2300 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2301 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2302 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2304 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2305 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2306 specify a port-range.
2308 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2309 timeout value per server.
2311 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2312 now have the list separator specified.
2314 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2317 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2320 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2322 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2323 rather than the verbs used.
2325 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2326 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2328 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2330 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2331 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2333 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2334 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2336 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2337 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2339 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2341 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2343 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2344 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2345 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2346 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2348 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2350 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2351 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2353 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2354 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2356 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2358 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2360 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2362 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2363 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2365 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2366 added for tls authenticator.
2368 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2374 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2375 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2376 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2377 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2378 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2379 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2380 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2382 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2383 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2384 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2385 function when detected.
2387 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2388 cause callback expansion.
2390 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2391 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2392 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2393 instead of bool when processing it.
2395 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2396 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2398 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2400 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2402 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2404 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2405 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2407 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2408 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2409 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2410 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2411 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2412 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2414 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2415 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2418 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2419 version 3.3.6 or later.
2421 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2422 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2423 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2424 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2425 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2426 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2429 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2430 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2432 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2433 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2434 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2437 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2438 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2439 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2441 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2442 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2444 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2445 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2448 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2450 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2451 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2453 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2454 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2457 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2459 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2462 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2463 output list separator was used.
2468 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2469 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2472 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2473 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2475 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2477 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2478 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2484 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2486 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2487 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2488 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2489 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2490 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2491 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2493 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2494 utilities have not been installed.
2496 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2497 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2499 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2500 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2502 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2503 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2504 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2505 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2507 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2509 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2510 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2512 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2515 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2517 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2518 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2519 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2521 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2522 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2523 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2524 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2525 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2526 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2528 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2530 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2531 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2533 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2536 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2538 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2540 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2541 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2543 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2544 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2546 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2548 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2550 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2551 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2553 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2554 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2555 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2557 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2558 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2559 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2562 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2564 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2565 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2568 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2569 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2572 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2573 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2575 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2576 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2578 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2580 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2581 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2582 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2584 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2585 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2587 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2588 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2591 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2592 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2593 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2595 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2597 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2598 Christian Aistleitner.
2600 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2602 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2603 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2605 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2606 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2608 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2609 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2611 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2612 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2614 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2615 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2617 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2618 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2619 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2621 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2623 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2624 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2627 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2629 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2630 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2637 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2639 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2640 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2642 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2645 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2646 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2649 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2651 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2652 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2653 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2654 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2655 using channel bindings instead).
2657 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2658 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2659 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2660 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2661 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2664 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2666 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2668 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2669 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2671 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2672 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2673 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2675 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2677 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2679 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2680 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2682 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2684 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2686 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2688 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2689 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2691 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2693 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2694 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2697 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2698 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2700 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2701 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2704 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2706 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2708 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2709 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2711 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2714 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2715 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2717 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2718 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2720 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2722 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2724 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2727 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2730 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2732 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2733 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2734 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2735 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2737 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2739 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2740 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2741 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2742 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2745 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2746 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2747 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2749 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2750 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2751 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2752 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2754 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2755 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2756 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2757 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2758 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2759 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2760 delivery, as in LMTP.
2762 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2763 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2765 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2767 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2771 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2772 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2773 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2774 username as equal to the username.
2776 This change corrects that bug.
2778 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2779 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2780 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2782 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2784 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2785 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2786 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2787 NULL dereference and crash.
2789 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2791 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2792 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2793 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2795 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2797 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2798 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2799 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2800 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2801 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2802 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2803 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2804 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2805 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2806 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2807 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2809 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2810 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2812 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2813 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2816 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2817 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2818 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2819 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2820 an empty string is now equivalent.
2822 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2823 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2824 not performing validation itself.
2826 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2827 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2829 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2832 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2834 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2835 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2836 other false fix of the same issue.
2837 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2840 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2841 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2843 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2844 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2845 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2847 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2848 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2849 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2851 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2853 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2855 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2856 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2858 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2861 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2862 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2863 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2864 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2865 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2867 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2868 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2870 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2871 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2874 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2875 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2876 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2877 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2879 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2881 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2882 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2883 from multiple comments on this bug.
2885 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2887 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2888 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2891 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2892 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2894 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2895 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2901 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2903 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2909 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2910 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2911 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2913 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2915 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2918 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2920 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2922 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2924 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2925 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2927 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2928 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2930 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2931 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2933 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2934 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2935 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2937 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2939 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2940 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2942 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2944 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2946 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2947 non-compliant senders.
2948 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2950 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2951 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2952 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2954 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2955 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2956 in spool file corruption.
2958 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2959 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2960 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2963 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2964 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2965 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2967 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2968 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2970 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2972 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2974 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2976 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2977 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2978 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2980 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2981 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2982 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2983 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2985 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2986 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2988 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2989 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2990 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2991 resolver implementation change.
2993 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2994 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2996 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2998 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
3000 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
3001 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
3003 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
3004 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
3006 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
3007 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
3009 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
3010 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
3011 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
3012 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
3013 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
3015 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3017 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
3018 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
3019 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
3021 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
3023 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
3024 read-only, out of scope).
3025 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
3027 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
3028 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
3029 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
3030 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
3032 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
3034 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
3035 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
3036 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
3037 real issues in debug logging.
3039 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
3040 assignment on my part. Fixed.
3042 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
3043 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
3044 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
3046 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
3047 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
3048 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
3051 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
3052 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
3054 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
3055 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
3056 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
3057 needs to override this, it can.
3059 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
3060 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
3061 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3063 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
3064 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
3065 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
3066 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
3068 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
3074 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
3075 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
3077 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
3079 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
3082 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
3083 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
3085 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
3086 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
3087 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
3089 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
3090 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
3091 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
3092 not safe for signals.
3094 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
3095 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
3096 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
3097 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
3100 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
3102 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
3103 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
3104 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
3105 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
3106 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
3108 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
3109 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
3110 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
3111 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
3112 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
3113 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
3115 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
3116 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
3117 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
3118 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
3120 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
3121 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
3122 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
3123 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
3125 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
3126 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
3127 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
3128 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
3129 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
3130 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
3131 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
3132 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
3133 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
3135 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
3136 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
3137 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
3138 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
3140 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
3141 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
3142 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
3143 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
3144 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
3145 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
3146 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
3147 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
3148 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
3149 details in the main documentation.
3151 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
3153 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
3155 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
3156 repository when doing development or release builds.
3158 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
3159 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
3161 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
3162 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
3165 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
3167 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
3168 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
3170 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
3171 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3173 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
3174 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3176 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
3177 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
3179 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
3180 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3182 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
3184 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
3187 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
3188 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
3189 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3191 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3193 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3195 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3196 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3202 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3204 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3205 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3207 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3209 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3211 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3214 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3215 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3217 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3218 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3220 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3221 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3223 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3226 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3227 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3229 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3230 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3231 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3232 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3234 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3235 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3241 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3244 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3245 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3246 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3248 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3249 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3251 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3252 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3253 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3255 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3256 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3258 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3259 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3261 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3262 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3264 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3265 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3267 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3268 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3270 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3273 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3274 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3276 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3277 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3279 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3280 SQL string expansion failure details.
3281 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3283 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3284 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3286 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3287 extern declarations in function scope.
3288 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3290 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3291 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3292 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3295 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3296 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3298 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3299 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3301 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3302 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3304 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3305 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3307 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3308 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3311 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3313 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3315 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3316 Patch by Simon Arlott
3318 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3319 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3325 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3326 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3328 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3329 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3331 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3333 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3334 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3335 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3337 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3338 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3339 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3341 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3342 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3343 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3344 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3346 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3347 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3348 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3349 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3351 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3352 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3353 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3356 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3359 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3360 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3361 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3362 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3363 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3369 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3370 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3371 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3373 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3374 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3376 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3378 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3380 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3382 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3384 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3386 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3387 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3388 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3389 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3391 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3392 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3393 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3394 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3395 more caution in buffer sizes.
3397 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3399 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3401 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3403 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3405 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3407 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3409 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3411 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3412 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3413 ignore trailing whitespace.
3415 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3417 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3420 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3421 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3423 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3424 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3425 Notification from John Horne.
3427 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3430 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3431 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3434 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3437 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3438 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3439 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3441 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3442 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3443 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3446 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3447 option (effectively making it always true).
3449 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3450 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3452 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3453 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3455 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3456 run-time user, instead of root.
3458 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3459 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3461 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3462 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3465 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3466 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3467 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3469 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3471 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3477 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3478 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3481 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3482 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3485 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3486 Patch from Alain Williams
3488 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3490 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3491 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3493 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3494 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3496 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3498 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3500 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3501 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3503 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3505 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3507 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3508 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3509 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3511 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3512 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3514 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3515 Patch by Simon Arlott
3517 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3518 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3524 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3526 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3528 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3530 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3532 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3538 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3539 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3541 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3542 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3545 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3546 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3547 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3549 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3550 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3552 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3553 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3554 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3555 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3557 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3558 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3559 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3561 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3563 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3565 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3566 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3568 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3570 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3571 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3572 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3573 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3575 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3576 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3578 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3580 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3582 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3583 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3585 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3586 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3588 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3589 that they are available at delivery time.
3591 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3593 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3594 incoming_port log selectors.
3596 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3597 setting expands to an empty string.
3599 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3600 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3602 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3603 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3605 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3606 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3608 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3609 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3611 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3612 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3614 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3615 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3617 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3619 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3620 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3622 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3623 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3625 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3627 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3628 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3630 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3632 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3634 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3637 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3638 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3640 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3641 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3643 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3644 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3646 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3647 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3649 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3650 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3652 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3653 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3655 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3656 plus update to original patch.
3658 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3660 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3661 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3663 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3665 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3667 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3669 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3671 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3672 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3674 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3675 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3677 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3678 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3680 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3681 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3683 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3685 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3687 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3689 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3695 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3696 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3697 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3699 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3700 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3701 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3702 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3703 build errors in sieve.c.
3705 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3706 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3707 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3709 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3711 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3713 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3715 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3721 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3723 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3724 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3725 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3726 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3727 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3728 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3729 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3730 for iplsearch lookups.
3732 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3733 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3734 previously such lookups could never work.
3736 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3737 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3738 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3740 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3743 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3744 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3745 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3746 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3747 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3748 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3750 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3751 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3753 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3754 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3755 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3756 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3757 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3758 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3760 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3763 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3765 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3766 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3769 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3770 by clients under certain conditions.
3772 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3773 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3775 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3777 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3778 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3780 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3782 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3784 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3786 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3787 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3789 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3791 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3792 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3794 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3796 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3798 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3799 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3800 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3801 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3803 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3804 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3805 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3807 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3808 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3810 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3812 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3814 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3816 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3817 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3818 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3824 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3825 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3828 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3829 issue a MAIL command.
3831 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3833 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3835 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3836 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3837 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3838 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3839 item. This has been fixed.
3841 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3842 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3844 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3845 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3847 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3848 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3849 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3851 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3853 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3854 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3855 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3856 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3857 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3859 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3860 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3861 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3863 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3864 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3865 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3866 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3868 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3870 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3872 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3873 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3874 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3875 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3876 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3878 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3880 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3881 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3882 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3885 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3887 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3889 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3891 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3893 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3895 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3896 no_callout_flush is set.
3898 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3899 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3900 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3903 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3905 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3906 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3907 other ACL rejections are.
3909 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3910 with slight modification.
3912 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3913 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3915 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3916 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3919 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3920 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3922 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3924 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3925 expansion side effects.
3927 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3928 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3929 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3932 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3933 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3934 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3936 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3937 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3938 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3939 were accidentally chopped off.
3941 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3942 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3943 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3944 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3945 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3946 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3947 pipelining has not been advertised.
3949 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3951 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3952 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3953 This has been fixed.
3955 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3956 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3957 reported on Solaris.
3959 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3960 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3961 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3962 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3963 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3964 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3965 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3967 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3970 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3972 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3974 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3975 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3976 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3977 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3978 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3979 criteria to be more general.
3981 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3982 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3983 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3984 host_all_ignored option.
3986 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3987 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3988 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3989 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3990 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3991 is what is supposed to happen).
3993 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3994 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3995 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3996 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3997 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
4000 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
4001 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
4002 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
4003 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
4004 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
4005 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
4008 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4010 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
4011 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
4013 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
4014 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
4016 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
4018 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4020 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
4021 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
4022 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
4023 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
4024 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
4025 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
4026 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
4027 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
4028 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
4029 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
4030 least in a lot of common cases.
4032 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
4033 advertised in response to EHLO.
4039 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
4040 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
4042 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
4043 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
4045 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
4046 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
4047 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
4049 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
4050 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
4051 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
4052 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
4053 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
4059 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
4060 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
4063 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
4064 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
4065 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
4067 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
4068 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
4069 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
4070 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
4071 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
4072 rather than extend the field.
4078 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
4079 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
4080 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
4081 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
4084 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
4085 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
4086 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
4088 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
4089 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
4090 hence the _LINUX specificness.
4092 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
4093 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
4094 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
4097 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
4098 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
4099 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
4100 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
4101 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
4102 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
4103 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
4104 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
4105 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
4106 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
4107 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
4109 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
4112 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
4113 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
4114 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
4115 ignores EPIPE as well.
4117 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
4118 (quoted-printable decoding).
4120 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
4121 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
4123 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
4125 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
4127 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
4129 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
4130 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
4132 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
4135 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
4136 miscellaneous code fixes
4138 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
4141 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
4142 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
4143 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
4144 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
4145 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
4146 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
4147 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
4148 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
4150 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
4151 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
4152 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
4153 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
4155 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
4156 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
4157 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
4158 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
4159 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
4160 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
4161 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
4162 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
4163 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
4165 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
4168 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
4169 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
4170 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
4171 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
4172 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
4173 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
4174 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
4175 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
4177 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
4178 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
4181 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
4182 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
4183 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
4184 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
4185 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
4186 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
4187 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
4188 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
4189 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
4190 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4191 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4192 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4193 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4195 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4196 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4197 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4198 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4199 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4200 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4201 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4203 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4204 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4205 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4206 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4207 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4208 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4209 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4210 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4211 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4212 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4214 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4215 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4216 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4217 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4218 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4220 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4221 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4222 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4223 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4224 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4225 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4226 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4228 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4229 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4230 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4231 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4232 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4233 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4236 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4237 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4238 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4241 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4242 if any retry times were supplied.
4244 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4245 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4246 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4248 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4250 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4252 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4253 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4254 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4255 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4256 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4257 before) are ignored.
4259 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4260 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4262 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4263 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4264 committing the later change.]
4266 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4267 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4268 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4269 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4270 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4271 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4272 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4273 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4274 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4276 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4277 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4278 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4279 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4280 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4281 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4282 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4283 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4284 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4286 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4287 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4288 hammering the server.
4290 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4291 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4293 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4295 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4296 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4297 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4299 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4300 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4301 one case where this was not true.
4303 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4304 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4305 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4306 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4309 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4310 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4311 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4312 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4313 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4314 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4315 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4316 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4317 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4320 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4321 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4322 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4323 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4325 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4326 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4328 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4329 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4330 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4332 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4334 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4336 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4338 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4339 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4340 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4341 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4343 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4344 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4346 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4347 be meaningful with "accept".
4349 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4350 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4352 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4353 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4354 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4356 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4357 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4358 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4359 there is data to show.
4360 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4362 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4363 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4364 as well as the number of messages.
4366 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4367 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4368 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4370 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4371 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4372 have a flag are now skipped.
4374 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4375 Added the -emptyok flag.
4377 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4378 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4380 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4381 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4382 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4384 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4387 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4388 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4390 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4392 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4393 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4395 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4397 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4398 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4399 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4400 contravention of the specifications.
4402 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4403 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4404 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4406 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4407 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4408 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4410 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4412 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4413 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4414 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4415 some point in the past.
4417 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4418 transport during callout processing was broken.
4420 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4421 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4423 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4424 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4426 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4427 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4429 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4435 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4436 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4438 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4439 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4440 there is data to show.
4441 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4443 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4444 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4446 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4447 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4449 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4450 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4452 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4453 submissions from trusted users.
4455 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4456 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4458 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4459 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4460 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4461 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4462 there is now a framework to start from.
4464 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4465 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4466 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4468 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4470 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4472 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4474 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4475 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4476 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4478 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4481 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4482 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4483 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4485 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4486 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4487 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4490 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4491 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4492 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4493 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4494 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4496 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4497 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4499 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4501 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4502 operations in malware.c.
4504 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4507 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4508 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4509 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4512 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4513 statements to "add_header".
4515 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4516 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4518 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4519 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4522 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4526 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4527 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4528 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4531 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4532 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4534 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4535 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4537 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4538 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4539 any possible encoding problems.
4541 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4542 but not after initializing Perl.
4544 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4545 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4546 apparently, which is not desirable.
4548 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4551 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4554 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4556 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4557 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4558 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4559 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4561 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4562 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4563 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4565 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4566 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4567 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4570 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4571 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4572 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4573 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4574 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4580 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4581 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4583 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4586 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4587 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4588 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4589 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4590 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4591 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4592 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4593 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4596 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4598 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4599 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4600 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4602 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4603 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4604 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4607 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4608 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4610 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4611 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4612 option (which defaults to 0600).
4614 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4616 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4617 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4618 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4619 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4620 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4621 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4622 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4624 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4630 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4631 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4632 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4633 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4634 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4635 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4638 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4639 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4641 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4643 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4644 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4645 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4646 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4647 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4650 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4651 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4653 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4654 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4655 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4656 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4657 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4659 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4660 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4661 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4662 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4664 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4665 be the same on different OS.
4667 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4670 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4671 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4673 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4676 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4677 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4678 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4679 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4680 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4681 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4684 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4685 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4686 when Exim was called.
4688 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4689 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4691 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4692 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4693 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4694 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4696 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4697 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4698 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4699 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4702 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4703 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4704 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4706 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4707 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4708 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4710 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4713 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4714 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4715 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4716 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4717 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4718 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4719 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4720 values from the SRV records were lost.
4722 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4723 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4724 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4726 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4727 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4728 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4730 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4731 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4732 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4733 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4734 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4735 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4736 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4737 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4738 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4739 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4741 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4742 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4743 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4745 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4746 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4748 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4749 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4750 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4751 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4754 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4755 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4756 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4758 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4759 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4760 PH/23 above applies.
4762 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4763 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4764 (for which there is an explicit test).
4766 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4768 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4769 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4770 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4771 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4772 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4774 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4775 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4776 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4777 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4779 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4780 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4781 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4783 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4785 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4787 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4788 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4789 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4791 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4792 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4793 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4794 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4795 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4797 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4798 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4799 the message gets confusing).
4801 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4802 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4803 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4804 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4806 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4807 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4808 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4809 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4812 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4813 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4814 the different processes.
4816 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4818 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4820 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4821 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4823 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4824 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4826 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4827 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4828 messages matching specified criteria.
4830 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4832 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4833 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4835 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4836 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4837 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4838 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4839 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4840 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4841 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4842 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4843 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4844 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4846 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4847 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4848 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4850 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4852 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4853 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4854 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4855 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4856 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4857 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4858 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4861 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4862 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4864 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4866 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4868 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4870 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4871 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4872 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4873 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4874 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4875 size of the count of files.
4877 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4879 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4882 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4883 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4884 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4885 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4887 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4888 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4889 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4891 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4892 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4893 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4894 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4895 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4897 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4898 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4900 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4901 will now be deprecated.
4903 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4905 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4906 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4907 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4909 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4910 with very large, slow to parse queues
4912 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4914 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4916 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4917 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4918 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4921 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4922 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4923 Sieve code now uses this.
4925 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4926 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4928 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4929 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4931 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4933 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4934 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4935 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4936 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4937 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4939 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4940 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4941 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4942 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4944 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4946 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4948 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4949 is preferred over IPv4.
4951 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4952 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4953 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4954 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4955 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4956 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4957 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4959 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4960 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4961 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4963 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4965 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4966 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4967 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4968 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4969 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4970 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4971 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4972 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4973 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4974 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4975 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4977 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4978 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4979 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4985 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4987 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4988 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4990 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4991 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4992 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4994 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4996 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4999 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
5002 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
5003 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
5004 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
5007 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
5008 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
5010 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
5011 inside the third argument.
5013 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
5014 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
5017 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
5018 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
5020 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
5021 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
5023 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
5025 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
5026 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
5029 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
5031 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
5032 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
5033 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
5034 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
5035 identical. For example:
5037 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
5039 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
5040 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
5041 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
5043 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
5044 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
5045 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
5046 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
5048 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
5049 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
5050 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
5053 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
5055 o fixes some comments
5056 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
5057 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
5058 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
5059 and documents the missing references header update
5063 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
5064 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
5067 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
5068 Electronic Mail") by including:
5070 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
5072 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
5073 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
5074 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
5075 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
5076 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
5078 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5080 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
5082 The auto-replied keyword:
5084 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
5085 message by an automatic process,
5087 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
5089 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
5090 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
5092 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
5093 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
5096 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
5097 to the default Received: header definition.
5099 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
5101 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
5102 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
5103 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
5105 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
5106 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
5107 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
5109 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
5110 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
5111 and treats the condition as false.
5113 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
5115 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
5116 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
5117 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
5118 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
5119 not changing the active code.
5121 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
5122 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
5124 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
5125 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
5127 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
5130 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
5131 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
5132 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
5133 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
5134 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
5135 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
5136 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
5137 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
5138 the text comparison.
5140 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
5141 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
5142 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
5143 The same fix has been applied.
5149 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
5150 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
5153 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
5154 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
5156 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
5158 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
5159 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
5160 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
5161 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
5162 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
5164 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
5165 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
5166 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
5167 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
5170 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
5178 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
5179 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
5181 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
5183 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
5185 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
5186 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
5187 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
5189 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
5190 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5191 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5193 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5194 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5197 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5198 ${stat: expansion item.
5200 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5201 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5203 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5204 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5207 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5209 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5212 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5213 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5215 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5217 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5218 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5219 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5220 the end of the subprocess.
5222 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5223 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5224 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5225 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5226 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5228 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5230 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5232 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5233 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5235 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5237 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5239 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5240 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5243 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5245 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5246 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5247 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5249 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5250 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5252 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5253 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5255 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5256 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5258 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5259 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5261 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5262 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5263 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5264 contributed by a Radius user.
5266 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5267 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5269 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5270 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5272 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5275 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5276 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5279 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5280 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5281 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5282 header lines when this was not necessary.
5284 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5286 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5287 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5288 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5291 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5294 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5295 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5296 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5297 return code was incorrect.
5299 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5301 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5303 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5305 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5307 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5308 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5309 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5310 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5311 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5314 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5316 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5317 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5318 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5319 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5320 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5321 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5322 which is clearly wrong.
5324 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5326 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5327 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5328 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5331 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5332 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5334 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5336 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5337 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5339 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5340 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5342 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5343 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5345 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5346 recipients, not senders.
5348 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5349 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5351 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5353 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5355 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5356 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5357 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5358 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5360 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5362 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5363 clock is set back in time.
5365 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5366 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5368 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5369 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5371 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5372 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5375 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5376 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5379 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5382 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5384 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5385 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5386 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5388 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5389 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5390 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5391 helo verification defer as a failure.
5393 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5394 actual error message.
5400 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5402 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5403 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5404 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5405 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5407 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5409 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5410 can still be requested.
5412 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5413 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5414 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5415 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5417 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5418 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5419 circumstances, but probably never did.
5421 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5422 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5423 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5426 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5428 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5429 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5431 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5433 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5435 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5436 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5437 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5438 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5439 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5440 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5442 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5443 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5444 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5445 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5446 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5447 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5449 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5450 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5452 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5453 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5455 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5456 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5458 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5460 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5462 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5464 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5466 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5468 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5470 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5472 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5473 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5474 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5476 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5477 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5478 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5479 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5481 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5482 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5483 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5485 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5486 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5487 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5488 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5490 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5491 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5494 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5495 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5496 should work with maildirs and everything.
5498 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5499 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5501 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5504 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5505 function for BDB 4.3.
5507 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5509 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5510 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5513 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5514 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5515 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5516 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5517 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5518 formatting function string_vformat().
5520 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5521 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5522 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5523 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5524 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5525 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5526 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5527 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5529 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5530 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5533 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5534 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5536 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5537 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5538 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5539 test. It is now used for both.
5541 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5542 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5543 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5544 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5545 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5546 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5548 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5549 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5550 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5553 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5554 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5555 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5557 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5558 experimental DomainKeys support:
5560 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5561 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5562 the control was given.
5564 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5566 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5568 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5570 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5571 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5572 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5575 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5576 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5577 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5578 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5579 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5580 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5583 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5584 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5585 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5586 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5587 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5588 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5590 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5591 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5592 do -d+all out of habit.
5594 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5595 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5598 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5599 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5600 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5601 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5602 record types that Exim uses.
5604 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5605 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5606 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5607 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5608 non-existent file that was broken.
5610 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5611 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5613 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5614 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5615 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5617 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5619 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5620 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5621 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5622 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5623 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5626 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5627 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5628 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5629 at a slight CPU cost.
5631 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5632 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5634 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5637 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5639 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5640 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5646 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5647 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5649 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5651 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5653 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5654 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5656 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5657 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5658 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5659 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5660 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5661 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5664 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5665 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5666 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5667 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5670 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5671 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5672 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5673 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5674 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5675 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5676 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5679 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5680 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5682 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5683 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5684 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5685 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5686 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5687 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5689 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5690 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5691 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5692 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5694 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5697 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5698 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5700 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5701 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5702 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5703 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5706 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5708 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5709 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5711 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5712 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5713 to what was transported.)
5715 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5717 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5718 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5719 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5720 spamd_address settings.
5722 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5723 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5724 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5725 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5726 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5728 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5730 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5731 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5732 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5733 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5734 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5736 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5737 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5739 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5740 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5741 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5742 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5743 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5744 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5745 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5748 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5749 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5750 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5751 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5752 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5753 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5754 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5757 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5759 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5760 driver and ACL definitions.
5762 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5763 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5765 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5766 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5767 understands it better than I do:
5769 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5770 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5772 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5773 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5774 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5775 => three warnings about OTP not working
5776 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5778 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5779 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5780 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5781 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5783 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5784 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5786 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5787 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5788 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5790 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5791 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5794 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5795 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5798 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5799 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5800 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5802 warn !verify = sender
5803 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5805 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5806 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5808 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5810 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5811 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5813 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5814 nomenclature these days.)
5816 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5817 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5819 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5820 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5821 . First host does not offer TLS;
5822 . First host accepts first address;
5823 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5824 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5825 . Second host accepts second address.
5826 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5827 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5830 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5831 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5832 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5833 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5834 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5836 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5837 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5839 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5840 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5842 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5843 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5844 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5846 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5847 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5850 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5852 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5853 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5854 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5855 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5856 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5857 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5858 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5860 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5861 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5862 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5863 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5864 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5866 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5867 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5870 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5871 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5872 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5873 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5874 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5875 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5877 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5879 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5880 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5881 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5882 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5883 printable escape sequences.
5885 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5886 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5889 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5890 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5893 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5894 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5895 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5896 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5897 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5899 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5900 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5901 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5903 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5905 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5906 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5909 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5910 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5911 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5912 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5913 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5914 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5915 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5916 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5917 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5920 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5921 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5922 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5923 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5927 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5928 ----------------------------------------
5930 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5931 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5932 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5933 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5934 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5935 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5938 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5939 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5940 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5941 historical information.
5947 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5949 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5950 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5952 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5953 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5956 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5957 filter fails to execute.
5959 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5960 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5961 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5962 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5963 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5965 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5967 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5968 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5969 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5970 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5972 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5973 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5974 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5975 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5976 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5978 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5980 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5982 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5983 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5984 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5985 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5987 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5988 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5989 sender verification.
5991 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5992 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5994 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5996 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5999 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6000 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6002 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6003 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6005 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
6006 information about exactly what failed.
6008 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
6010 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
6011 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
6012 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
6014 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
6015 It is now set to "smtps".
6017 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6018 ignore_target_hosts.
6020 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6021 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6022 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6023 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6026 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6027 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6028 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6030 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6031 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6032 wake it up if nothing else does.
6034 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6035 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6036 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6039 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6040 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6042 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
6044 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
6045 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
6046 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
6047 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
6048 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
6049 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
6050 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
6051 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
6053 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
6054 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
6055 than one IP address.
6057 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
6058 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
6059 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
6060 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
6062 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6063 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6064 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6065 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6066 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6069 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
6070 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
6071 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
6072 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
6074 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6075 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6078 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6079 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6080 $sender_host_address.
6082 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
6083 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
6084 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
6085 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
6086 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
6089 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
6091 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
6092 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
6094 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
6095 just the host names, not the priorities.
6097 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
6098 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
6099 controlled by a keyword.
6101 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
6102 multiple records are returned.
6104 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
6105 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
6108 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
6110 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
6111 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
6113 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6114 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6115 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6117 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
6119 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
6121 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
6123 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6124 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6125 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6126 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6127 because the tests only now provoked it.
6129 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6130 (this can affect the format of dates).
6132 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6133 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6134 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6135 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6137 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
6139 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6140 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6141 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6142 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6144 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6145 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6146 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6148 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6151 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6152 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6153 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6154 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6155 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6156 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6159 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
6160 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
6161 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
6164 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
6165 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
6166 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
6168 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
6169 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
6170 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
6171 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
6172 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
6173 so I produce this patch..."
6175 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
6176 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
6179 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6180 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6181 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6182 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6185 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
6187 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
6188 long debug lines gets shown.
6190 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6191 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6193 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6195 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6196 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6197 of $primary_hostname.
6199 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6200 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6201 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6202 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6203 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6204 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6205 by change 4.50/55 above.
6207 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6208 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6209 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6210 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6211 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6212 running as the user.
6215 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6216 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6217 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6220 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6221 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6223 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6224 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6225 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6226 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6227 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6229 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6230 This has been fixed.
6232 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6233 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6234 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6235 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6238 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6240 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6241 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6242 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6243 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6245 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6246 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6248 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6249 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6250 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6252 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6253 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6254 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6257 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6258 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6259 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6261 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6262 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6263 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6264 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6266 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6267 during host lookups.
6269 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6270 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6272 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6274 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6275 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6276 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6277 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6278 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6281 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6282 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6284 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6285 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6286 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6288 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6290 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6291 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6292 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6293 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6294 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6295 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6298 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6299 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6300 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6301 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6302 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6304 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6307 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6309 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6310 "vacation" handling.
6312 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6313 OS variants using glibc.
6315 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6318 ----------------------------------------------------
6319 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6320 ----------------------------------------------------
6326 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6327 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6330 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6331 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6334 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6335 filter fails to execute.
6337 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6338 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6339 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6340 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6341 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6343 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6344 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6345 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6346 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6348 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6349 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6350 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6351 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6352 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6354 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6356 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6357 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6358 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6359 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6361 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6362 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6363 sender verification.
6365 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6366 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6368 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6369 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6371 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6372 ignore_target_hosts.
6374 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6375 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6376 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6377 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6380 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6381 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6382 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6384 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6385 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6386 wake it up if nothing else does.
6388 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6389 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6390 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6393 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6394 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6396 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6398 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6399 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6402 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6403 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6406 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6407 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6408 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6409 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6410 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6413 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6414 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6417 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6418 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6419 $sender_host_address.
6421 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6423 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6424 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6425 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6427 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6430 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6431 (this can affect the format of dates).
6433 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6434 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6435 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6436 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6438 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6439 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6440 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6442 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6443 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6444 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6445 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6447 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6448 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6449 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6451 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6454 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6455 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6456 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6457 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6458 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6459 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6462 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6463 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6464 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6465 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6468 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6469 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6470 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6471 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6472 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6473 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6474 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6476 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6477 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6478 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6479 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6480 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6481 running as the user.
6484 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6485 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6486 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6489 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6490 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6491 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6492 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6493 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6495 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6496 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6497 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6498 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6501 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6502 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6503 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6504 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6505 because the tests only now provoked it.
6511 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6512 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6513 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6514 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6515 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6516 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6517 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6519 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6520 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6523 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6525 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6527 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6528 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6531 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6532 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6533 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6534 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6535 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6537 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6538 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6540 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6542 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6544 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6547 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6548 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6550 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6551 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6552 affecting debugging statements).
6554 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6556 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6557 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6558 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6559 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6560 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6561 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6562 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6563 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6564 after the received time, and all would be well.
6566 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6567 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6568 condition in an expansion string.
6570 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6572 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6573 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6574 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6575 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6576 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6577 job under whatever limits there are.
6579 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6581 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6584 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6585 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6586 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6587 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6590 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6591 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6592 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6593 binary data in such strings.
6595 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6597 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6598 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6599 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6600 failure, which is pointless.
6602 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6604 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6606 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6607 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6608 Sender: header lines.
6610 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6611 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6612 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6614 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6615 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6616 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6617 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6618 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6621 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6622 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6623 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6624 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6625 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6627 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6628 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6629 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6632 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6633 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6635 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6636 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6638 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6640 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6642 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6644 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6647 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6649 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6651 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6652 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6653 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6654 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6656 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6657 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6663 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6664 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6665 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6667 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6668 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6669 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6670 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6671 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6672 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6674 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6675 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6676 verification failure".
6678 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6679 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6680 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6681 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6683 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6684 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6685 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6686 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6687 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6688 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6689 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6690 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6691 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6692 treated as a timeout.
6694 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6695 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6696 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6697 not set for Exim filters).
6699 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6700 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6701 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6703 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6705 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6706 try to make them clearer.
6708 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6709 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6711 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6713 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6715 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6716 only the Cygwin environment.
6718 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6719 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6720 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6721 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6722 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6724 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6725 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6726 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6727 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6728 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6729 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6730 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6732 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6733 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6735 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6737 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6738 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6739 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6741 To: susanne@some.where
6743 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6744 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6745 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6746 of addresses in From: header lines).
6748 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6749 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6750 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6752 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6753 treated as non-personal.
6755 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6756 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6758 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6760 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6762 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6763 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6764 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6766 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6767 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6769 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6770 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6771 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6772 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6773 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6774 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6776 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6777 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6778 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6779 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6780 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6781 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6782 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6783 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6785 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6787 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6788 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6790 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6791 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6792 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6794 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6795 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6797 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6798 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6799 rather than long int.
6801 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6803 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6809 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6810 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6811 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6812 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6813 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6814 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6820 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6821 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6823 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6824 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6825 socklen_t is defined.
6827 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6830 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6833 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6834 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6835 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6836 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6837 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6839 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6840 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6841 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6842 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6844 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6845 of flapping under certain conditions.
6847 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6848 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6849 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6851 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6853 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6855 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6856 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6857 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6858 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6860 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6861 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6862 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6863 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6864 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6865 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6866 preserved with the message after it was received.
6868 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6869 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6870 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6871 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6872 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6873 test suite worked just fine.
6875 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6876 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6877 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6879 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6880 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6883 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6884 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6885 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6886 does not fully solve it.
6888 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6889 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6890 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6891 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6892 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6894 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6895 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6896 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6898 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6899 string, for example:
6901 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6903 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6904 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6905 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6906 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6907 the routers could not see them.
6909 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6910 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6912 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6913 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6916 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6917 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6918 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6919 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6920 that needed quoting.
6922 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6923 was not being matched caselessly.
6925 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6928 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6929 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6930 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6931 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6932 when use_sender is false.
6934 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6936 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6938 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6940 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6941 the configuration file.
6943 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6944 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6946 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6948 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6949 bytes in the message body.
6951 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6952 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6955 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6957 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6959 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6960 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6961 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6962 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6969 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6970 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6972 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6973 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6974 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6975 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6976 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6978 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6979 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6981 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6982 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6983 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6985 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6986 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6987 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6989 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6992 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6993 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6994 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6995 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6996 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6997 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6998 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
7004 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
7005 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
7006 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
7007 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
7008 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
7009 default (and expected) setting.
7011 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
7012 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
7013 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
7014 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
7016 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
7017 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
7019 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
7022 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
7023 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
7024 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
7025 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
7026 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
7027 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
7029 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
7030 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
7031 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
7033 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
7034 part (NOT match_host).
7036 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
7038 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
7039 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
7040 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
7041 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
7042 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
7043 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
7044 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
7045 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
7046 the same named file.
7048 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
7049 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
7052 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
7053 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
7054 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
7055 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
7058 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
7059 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
7060 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
7062 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
7064 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
7066 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
7068 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
7069 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
7071 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
7072 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
7073 before starting the TLS session.
7075 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
7077 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
7078 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
7080 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
7081 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
7082 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
7083 colon in the middle).
7089 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
7090 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
7091 multiple configurations are in use.
7093 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
7094 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
7095 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
7096 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
7097 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
7098 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
7100 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
7101 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
7103 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
7104 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
7105 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
7107 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
7108 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
7111 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
7112 that used bh_ and bheader_.
7114 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
7116 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
7117 allowing one more file than it should have been.
7119 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
7127 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
7128 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
7129 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
7130 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
7131 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
7133 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
7136 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
7137 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
7138 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
7139 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
7140 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
7141 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
7143 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
7144 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
7145 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
7146 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
7147 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
7148 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
7149 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
7152 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
7153 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
7154 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
7155 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
7156 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
7158 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
7160 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
7161 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
7162 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
7164 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
7166 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
7167 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
7168 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
7171 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
7172 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
7174 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
7175 Three changes have been made:
7177 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
7178 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
7179 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
7180 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
7181 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
7183 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
7186 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
7187 the modified behaviour.
7193 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7196 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7197 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7199 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7200 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7201 try to track down a specific problem.
7203 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7204 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7205 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7207 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7210 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7211 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7212 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7213 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7214 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7215 some earlier ones do not.
7217 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7219 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7220 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7221 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7222 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7223 address literals are enabled, of course).
7225 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7227 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7228 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7229 by a command such as
7233 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7235 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7237 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7238 remained set. It is now erased.
7240 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7241 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7243 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7244 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7245 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7246 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7247 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7248 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7249 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7250 appropriate error code.
7252 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7253 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7254 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7255 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7256 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7257 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7259 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7260 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7261 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7263 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7264 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7265 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7266 terminate the header.
7268 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7269 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7270 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7272 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7273 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7274 (4.30/29). In particular:
7276 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7279 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7280 to write a maildirsize file.
7282 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7283 the transport, the new value overrides.
7285 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7288 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7289 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7290 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7293 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7294 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7295 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7298 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7299 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7300 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7302 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7303 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7306 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7307 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7308 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7310 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7312 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7314 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7316 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7317 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7320 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7321 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7322 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7323 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7324 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7325 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7326 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7329 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7330 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7331 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7332 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7333 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7336 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7337 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7338 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7339 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7340 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7341 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7342 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7343 cached value only when the same options are set.
7345 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7347 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7348 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7349 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7350 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7351 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7353 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7354 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7355 it is clearly obsolete.
7357 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7360 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7361 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7362 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7365 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7366 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7367 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7368 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7369 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7371 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7372 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7373 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7374 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7376 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7378 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7380 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7381 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7384 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7385 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7386 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7387 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7388 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7389 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7392 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7393 with the -f command-line option.
7395 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7396 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7397 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7398 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7399 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7400 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7402 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7403 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7406 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7407 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7408 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7409 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7410 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7411 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7412 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7413 buffer is too small.
7415 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7416 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7418 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7419 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7420 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7421 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7422 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7423 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7424 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7425 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7426 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7428 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7429 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7430 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7432 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7433 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7436 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7437 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7438 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7439 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7440 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7442 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7443 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7444 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7445 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7448 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7450 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7452 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7453 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7455 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7456 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7457 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7459 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7460 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7461 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7462 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7463 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7465 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7466 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7467 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7468 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7469 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7470 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7471 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7473 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7474 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7475 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7476 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7477 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7478 the test of how many are available.
7480 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7481 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7482 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7483 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7484 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7485 new message is started.
7487 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7488 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7490 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7491 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7493 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7494 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7495 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7498 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7499 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7500 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7501 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7502 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7503 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7504 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7506 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7507 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7508 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7509 interpreted as octal.
7511 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7514 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7515 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7516 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7517 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7518 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7519 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7521 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7522 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7523 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7524 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7526 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7527 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7528 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7529 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7531 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7532 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7535 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7536 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7538 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7540 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7541 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7542 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7543 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7545 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7546 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7547 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7548 supplied", which is not helpful.
7550 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7551 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7552 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7554 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7555 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7556 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7557 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7558 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7559 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7560 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7561 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7563 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7564 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7565 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7566 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7567 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7569 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7570 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7571 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7572 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7573 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7574 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7576 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7577 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7578 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7580 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7582 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7583 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7584 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7587 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7589 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7590 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7591 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7592 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7593 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7594 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7595 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7596 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7598 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7599 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7600 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7601 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7602 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7604 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7607 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7608 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7609 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7610 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7611 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7612 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7613 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7614 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7615 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7621 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7622 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7623 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7625 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7628 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7629 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7630 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7632 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7633 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7634 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7635 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7636 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7637 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7639 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7640 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7641 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7642 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7643 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7644 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7645 the Exim test suite.
7647 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7648 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7649 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7650 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7652 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7653 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7654 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7655 specify it in this variable.
7657 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7658 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7659 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7660 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7662 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7663 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7664 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7665 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7667 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7668 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7669 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7670 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7671 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7673 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7675 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7678 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7679 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7680 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7681 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7682 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7684 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7685 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7687 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7688 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7689 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7690 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7691 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7693 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7694 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7696 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7697 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7698 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7700 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7701 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7703 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7704 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7706 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7707 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7708 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7710 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7711 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7713 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7714 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7715 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7716 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7718 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7720 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7721 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7722 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7723 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7725 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7727 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7728 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7730 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7732 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7733 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7734 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7735 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7736 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7737 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7739 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7741 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7742 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7745 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7747 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7748 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7750 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7751 550 Sender verify failed
7753 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7754 the final line of the response.
7756 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7757 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7758 all other user lookups.
7760 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7763 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7764 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7765 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7766 result into an int without checking.
7768 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7769 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7770 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7772 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7773 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7774 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7775 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7777 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7780 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7781 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7783 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7784 to the empty sender.
7786 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7787 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7788 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7789 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7790 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7791 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7792 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7795 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7796 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7797 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7798 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7801 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7802 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7804 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7807 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7808 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7810 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7812 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7813 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7816 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7817 as soon as it is encountered.
7819 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7821 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7824 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7825 recognizes a tab character.
7827 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7828 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7829 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7830 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7832 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7834 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7837 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7839 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7841 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7842 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7845 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7846 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7847 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7848 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7849 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7851 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7852 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7854 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7855 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7856 list (.included file names were always shown).
7858 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7859 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7860 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7863 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7864 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7866 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7868 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7870 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7872 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7873 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7874 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7875 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7876 failures to open the logs.
7878 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7879 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7880 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7881 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7882 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7883 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7884 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7890 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7891 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7892 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7895 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7896 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7897 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7899 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7900 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7901 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7903 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7904 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7905 causing some misleading effects.
7907 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7908 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7909 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7911 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7912 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7913 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7914 queue-runner function directly.
7920 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7923 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7924 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7925 was always written to the default place.
7927 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7928 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7929 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7931 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7933 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7935 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7936 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7937 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7939 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7940 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7943 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7944 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7945 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7947 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7948 command line option is disabled.
7950 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7951 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7953 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7955 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7957 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7958 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7960 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7962 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7963 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7964 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7965 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7966 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7967 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7969 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7970 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7973 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7974 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7976 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7977 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7979 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7980 received was valid base64.
7982 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7983 name of the variable that was being set.
7985 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7987 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7988 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7989 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7990 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7991 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7992 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7994 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7996 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7997 nor realm was specified.
7999 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
8000 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
8001 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
8002 errors are given to SMTP connections.
8004 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
8005 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
8006 failing to send a response to QUIT.
8008 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
8009 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
8010 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
8012 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
8013 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
8014 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
8015 some systems use these upper case variants.
8017 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
8018 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
8019 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
8020 socket" when it tried to send the third.
8022 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
8024 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
8025 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
8027 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
8028 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
8031 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
8033 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
8034 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
8035 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
8036 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
8038 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
8041 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
8042 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
8043 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
8045 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
8046 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
8048 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
8049 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
8050 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
8051 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
8053 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
8054 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
8055 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
8057 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
8059 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
8060 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
8061 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
8062 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
8065 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
8066 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
8067 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
8069 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
8071 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
8072 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
8074 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
8075 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
8077 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
8078 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
8079 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
8080 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
8081 when emails are that large.
8088 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
8089 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
8091 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
8092 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
8093 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
8095 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
8096 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
8097 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
8099 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
8100 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
8101 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
8102 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
8103 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
8105 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
8106 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
8107 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
8108 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
8109 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
8112 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
8113 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
8114 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
8115 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
8116 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
8117 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
8118 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
8119 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
8120 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
8121 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
8122 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
8123 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
8124 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
8125 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
8127 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
8128 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
8131 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
8132 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
8133 error should be diagnosed.
8135 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
8136 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
8137 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
8138 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
8139 appeared instead of "NULL".
8141 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
8142 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
8143 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
8144 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
8145 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
8146 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
8149 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
8150 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
8151 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
8157 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
8158 or receiver verification errors.
8160 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
8163 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
8164 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
8165 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
8166 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
8168 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
8169 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
8170 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
8171 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
8172 shouldn't happen again.
8174 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
8175 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
8176 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
8178 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
8179 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
8181 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
8183 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
8184 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
8186 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
8187 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
8190 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8191 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8192 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8194 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8195 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8196 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8197 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8199 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8200 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8201 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8202 to define what should happen).
8204 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8205 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8206 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8208 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8210 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8212 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8213 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8215 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8216 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8217 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8218 structure in all cases.
8220 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8221 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8222 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8223 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8225 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8226 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8229 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8230 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8232 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8233 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8235 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8236 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8237 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8239 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8240 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8241 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8243 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8244 the book and for uniformity.
8246 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8248 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8249 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8250 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8251 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8252 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8253 non-existent command as the problem.
8255 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8256 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8257 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8259 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8261 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8262 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8263 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8265 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8266 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8267 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8268 timestamps using strftime().
8270 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8271 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8273 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8274 transport-time rewrites.
8276 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8277 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8278 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8279 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8281 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8282 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8284 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8285 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8286 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8287 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8290 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8291 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8292 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8293 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8294 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8295 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8296 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8298 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8299 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8300 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8301 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8302 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8304 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8305 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8306 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8307 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8308 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8309 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8310 remaining text gets split now.
8312 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8313 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8314 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8315 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8317 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8318 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8319 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8320 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8323 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8324 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8325 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8326 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8327 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8328 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8329 passed through if needed.
8331 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8332 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8333 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8334 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8335 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8336 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8338 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8339 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8340 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8341 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8342 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8344 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8345 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8346 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8347 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8348 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8350 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8351 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8354 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8355 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8356 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8357 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8358 mayhem of various kinds.
8360 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8361 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8362 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8363 the right test for positive values.
8365 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8366 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8367 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8368 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8369 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8370 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8371 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8372 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8373 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8374 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8377 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8380 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8381 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8384 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8385 the existing equality matching.
8387 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8388 dealing with inode numbers.
8390 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8391 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8392 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8394 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8395 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8396 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8397 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8400 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8401 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8402 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8403 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8404 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8405 relay addresses has also been removed.
8407 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8409 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8410 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8411 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8413 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8414 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8415 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8416 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8417 processing applies to CR:
8419 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8420 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8422 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8423 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8424 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8425 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8427 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8428 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8429 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8431 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8432 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8433 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8434 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8435 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8436 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8439 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8442 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8443 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8444 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8445 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8448 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8450 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8452 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8454 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8455 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8456 not considered personal.
8458 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8460 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8462 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8464 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8465 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8466 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8467 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8468 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8469 header lines, and spool format errors.
8471 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8472 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8473 for more flexibility.
8475 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8476 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8477 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8479 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8482 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8483 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8484 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8485 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8486 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8487 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8488 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8489 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8490 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8492 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8493 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8494 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8495 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8496 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8497 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8498 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8500 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8501 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8502 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8504 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8505 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8506 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8507 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8508 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8509 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8510 instead of killing the process with assert().
8512 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8513 than Unicode encoding.
8515 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8516 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8517 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8518 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8520 77. Added process_log_path.
8522 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8523 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8525 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8526 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8528 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8529 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8530 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8532 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8533 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8534 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8535 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8536 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8539 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8540 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8543 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8544 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8545 they will be used during message reception.
8551 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.