1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 JH/01 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
9 SMTP connection" log lines.
11 JH/02 Option default value updates:
12 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
13 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
15 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
17 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
18 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
19 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
21 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
22 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
23 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
26 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
27 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
29 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
30 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
31 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
33 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
34 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
35 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
36 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
37 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
39 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
40 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
43 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
44 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
46 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
47 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
48 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
50 HS/01 Bug 2728: Introduce EDITME option "DMARC_API" to work around incompatible
51 API changes in libopendmarc.
53 JH/12 Bug 2930: Fix daemon startup. When started from any process apart from
54 pid 1, in the normal "background daemon" mode, having to drop process-
55 group leadership also lost track of needing to create listener sockets.
57 JH/13 Bug 2929: Fix using $recipients after ${run...}. A change made for 4.96
58 resulted in the variable appearing empty. Find and fix by Ruben Jenster.
60 JH/14 Bug 2933: Fix regex substring match variables for null matches. Since 4.96
61 a capture group which obtained no text (eg. "(abc)*" matching zero
62 occurrences) could cause a segfault if the corresponding $<n> was
65 JH/15 Fix argument parsing for ${run } expansion. Previously, when an argument
66 included a close-brace character (eg. it itself used an expansion) an
69 JH/16 Move running the smtp connect ACL to before, for TLS-on-connect ports,
70 starting TLS. Previously it was after, meaning that attackers on such
71 ports had to be screened using the host_reject_connection main config
72 option. The new sequence aligns better with the STARTTLS behaviour, and
73 permits defences against crypto-processing load attacks, even though it
74 is strictly an incompatible change.
75 Also, avoid sending any SMTP fail response for either the connect ACL
76 or host_reject_connection, for TLS-on-connect ports.
82 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
83 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
84 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
87 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
88 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
90 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
91 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
92 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
93 not be modified by local-scan code.
95 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
96 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
98 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
99 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
102 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
103 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
105 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
106 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
109 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
110 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
111 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
113 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
114 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
115 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
117 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
118 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
119 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
120 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
121 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
122 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
123 Assorted crashes happen.
125 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
126 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
127 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
130 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
131 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
132 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
133 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
135 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
136 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
137 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
140 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
142 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
143 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
146 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
147 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
148 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
150 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
151 result of expansion operators and items.
153 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
154 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
155 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
156 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
158 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
160 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
161 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
162 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
163 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
166 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
167 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
169 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
170 Previously only the domain part was returned.
172 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
173 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
174 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
175 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
177 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
178 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
179 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
180 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
182 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
183 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
184 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
185 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
186 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
189 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
190 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
191 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
193 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
194 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
195 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
196 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
198 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
199 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
200 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
201 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
203 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
204 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
205 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
206 Previously only the server IP was used.
208 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
209 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
210 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
211 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
213 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
214 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
215 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
217 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
218 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
219 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
222 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
223 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
225 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
226 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
232 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
233 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
234 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
236 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
237 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
238 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
239 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
241 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
242 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
243 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
244 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
245 so could be handling tainted values.
247 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
248 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
249 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
251 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
252 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
253 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
256 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
257 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
258 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
259 to align better with RFC 6125.
261 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
262 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
263 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
264 by adding a release action in that path.
266 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
267 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
268 dynamically-created buffers.
270 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
271 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
272 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
273 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
275 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
276 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
277 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
278 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
280 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
281 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
282 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
284 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
285 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
286 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
287 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
289 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
290 excluded, not matching the documentation.
292 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
293 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
295 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
296 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
297 this was a coding error.
299 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
300 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
301 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
302 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
303 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
304 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
305 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
307 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
308 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
309 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
310 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
312 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
313 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
314 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
315 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
316 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
318 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
319 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
322 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
323 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
324 domain-parking registrar.
326 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
327 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
328 after removing the newline.
330 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
331 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
332 option set, which was previously used.
334 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
337 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
338 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
339 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
340 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
342 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
343 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
344 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
345 exim.dev.20160529.3).
347 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
348 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
349 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
351 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
352 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
353 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
356 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
357 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
358 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
360 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
361 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
362 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
363 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
366 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
367 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
368 there, handle PRX and TFO.
370 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
371 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
372 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
373 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
374 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
376 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
377 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
378 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
379 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
382 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
383 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
385 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
388 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
389 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
390 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
391 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
392 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
394 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
396 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
397 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
398 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
399 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
400 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
401 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
403 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
404 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
406 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
407 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
408 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
410 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
411 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
414 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
415 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
416 of a new variable: $auth4.
418 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
419 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
420 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
421 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
422 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
424 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
425 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
426 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
427 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
429 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
430 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
431 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
433 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
434 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
435 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
436 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
439 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
440 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
441 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
444 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
445 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
446 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
447 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
449 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
450 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
452 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
453 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
454 looked as if if might be one.
456 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
457 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
458 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
459 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
460 messages can show the proxy information.
462 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
463 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
464 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
465 "queue_time_exclusive".
467 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
468 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
469 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
471 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
472 making it unusable in complex expressions.
474 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
475 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
478 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
480 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
482 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
484 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
485 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
486 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
487 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
489 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
490 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
492 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
493 better. Reported by Qualys.
495 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
496 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
499 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
501 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
504 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
506 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
507 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
508 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
509 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
511 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
512 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
514 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
515 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
516 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
517 mode until after various protocol state checks.
518 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
520 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
522 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
523 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
525 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
528 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
529 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
530 executed child processes (if any).
532 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
535 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
536 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
537 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
538 been reported on other platforms.
540 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
542 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
543 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
544 Not supported on Solaris 10.
546 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
547 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
548 since fakereject was originally introduced.
550 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
551 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
553 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
554 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
555 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
558 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
559 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
560 which only permit IP addresses.
566 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
567 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
568 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
570 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
572 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
573 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
576 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
577 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
578 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
580 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
582 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
584 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
585 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
586 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
588 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
589 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
590 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
592 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
593 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
595 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
596 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
599 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
600 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
601 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
602 should both provide the file and set the option.
603 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
605 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
606 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
608 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
609 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
610 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
611 Authentication-Results: header.
613 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
614 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
615 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
616 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
618 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
619 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
620 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
621 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
622 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
623 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
624 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
626 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
627 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
628 copies while it is still usable.
630 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
631 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
632 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
634 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
635 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
637 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
638 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
639 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
640 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
642 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
643 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
644 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
647 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
648 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
649 - the pipe transport command
650 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
651 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
653 - paths used by single-key lookups
654 Previously this was permitted.
656 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
657 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
658 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
659 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
661 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
662 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
663 support larger malloc requests.
665 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
666 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
667 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
668 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
670 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
671 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
672 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
673 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
676 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
677 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
678 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
679 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
680 data being length-specified.
682 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
683 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
684 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
685 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
687 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
688 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
689 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
690 not being properly tracked.
692 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
693 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
694 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
695 minute could be seen.
697 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
698 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
699 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
701 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
702 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
704 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
705 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
708 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
710 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
711 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
713 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
714 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
715 filesystem as sufficient validation.
717 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
718 argument is supplied.
720 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
721 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
722 access under Exim's current working directory.
724 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
725 Previously no event was raised.
727 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
728 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
729 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
732 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
733 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
734 the size of the signature hash.
736 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
737 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
739 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
740 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
741 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
742 dropped between messages.
744 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
745 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
746 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
747 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
749 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
750 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
751 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
752 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
753 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
754 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
755 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
756 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
757 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
759 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
760 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
761 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
763 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
764 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
771 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
772 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
774 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
775 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
778 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
781 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
783 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
785 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
786 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
788 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
789 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
790 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
791 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
792 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
793 suitably configured).
795 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
796 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
798 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
799 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
802 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
803 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
805 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
806 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
807 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
808 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
811 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
812 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
813 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
815 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
818 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
819 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
821 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
822 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
823 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
824 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
827 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
828 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
829 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
830 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
833 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
834 shared (NFS) environment.
836 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
837 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
840 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
841 on some platforms for bit 31.
843 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
844 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
845 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
846 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
847 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
848 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
849 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
850 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
852 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
854 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
855 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
857 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
858 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
861 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
862 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
865 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
866 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
867 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
870 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
871 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
872 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
874 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
875 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
876 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
877 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
878 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
880 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
883 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
884 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
885 be requested on all coneections.
887 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
888 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
890 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
892 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
893 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
894 one for these; the option was ignored.
896 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
897 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
898 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
899 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
901 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
902 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
903 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
906 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
907 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
908 error ignored was made.
910 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
912 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
913 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
914 values, to catch one form of exploit.
916 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
917 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
918 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
920 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
921 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
924 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
925 them in our smtp response.
927 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
928 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
929 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
930 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
931 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
933 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
934 link count into consideration.
936 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
937 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
939 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
940 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
941 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
944 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
946 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
948 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
950 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
951 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
952 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
953 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
955 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
957 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
958 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
961 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
962 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
963 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
965 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
966 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
967 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
969 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
970 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
971 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
972 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
973 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
974 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
975 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
976 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
978 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
979 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
980 resulted in an indefinite loop.
982 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
983 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
984 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
986 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
987 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
994 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
995 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
997 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
998 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1000 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1001 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1002 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1004 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1005 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1006 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1008 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1009 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1010 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1011 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1012 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1015 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1016 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1018 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1019 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1020 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1021 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1022 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1023 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1024 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1026 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1027 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1029 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1032 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1033 Previously this would segfault.
1035 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1038 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1039 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1040 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1041 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1042 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1043 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1045 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1047 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1048 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1049 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1050 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1052 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1054 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1055 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1056 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1057 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1059 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1061 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1063 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1064 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1065 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1067 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1068 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1069 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1071 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1073 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1074 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1075 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1076 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1078 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1079 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1080 promised '?' replacement.
1082 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1084 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1085 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1086 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1087 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1088 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1090 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1091 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1092 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1094 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1095 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1096 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1098 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1099 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1100 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1102 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1103 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1104 hope that is portable enough.
1106 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1107 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1108 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1109 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1111 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1112 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1113 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1115 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1116 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1117 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1118 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1120 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1121 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1123 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1124 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1125 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1126 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1128 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1129 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1130 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1132 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1133 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1134 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1135 the previous G, M, k.
1137 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1138 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1141 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1142 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1143 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1144 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1146 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1147 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1149 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1150 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1151 off past the nul-terimation.
1153 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1154 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1155 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1156 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1157 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1159 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1161 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1162 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1163 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1166 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1167 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1169 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1170 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1171 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1173 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1174 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1175 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1177 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1178 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1184 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1185 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1186 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1187 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1188 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1189 be defined in redis_servers.
1191 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1192 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1194 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1195 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1196 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1197 extant use locations.
1199 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1200 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1202 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1203 Previously only the last row was returned.
1205 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1206 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1207 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1208 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1211 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1212 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1213 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1214 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1215 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1216 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1217 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1218 Main pool for expansions.
1219 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1220 active in the testsuite.
1221 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1223 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1224 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1225 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1226 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1229 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1230 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1233 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1234 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1235 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1237 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1238 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1239 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1241 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1242 rows affected is given instead).
1244 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1245 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1247 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1248 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1249 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1250 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1251 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1253 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1254 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1255 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1257 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1258 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1259 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1260 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1263 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1264 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1265 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1268 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1270 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1271 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1273 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1274 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1275 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1277 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1278 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1279 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1282 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1283 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1285 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1286 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1287 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1289 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1290 for the build is renamed.
1292 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1293 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1294 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1296 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1297 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1298 result replacing the original.
1300 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1301 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1302 and the resources needed to be freed.
1304 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1306 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1309 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1310 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1311 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1312 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1314 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1315 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1317 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1318 newer versions of the scanner.
1320 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1321 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1322 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1323 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1324 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1325 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1326 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1328 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1329 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1330 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1331 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1332 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1333 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1334 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1335 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1336 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1337 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1339 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1340 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1342 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1344 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1345 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1347 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1348 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1350 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1351 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1352 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1354 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1355 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1356 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1357 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1359 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1360 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1363 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1364 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1366 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1367 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1368 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1369 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1370 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1372 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1373 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1376 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1377 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1379 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1382 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1383 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1384 "bare" representation.
1386 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1387 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1388 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1389 corrupted the output.
1395 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1396 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1397 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1398 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1400 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1401 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1403 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1404 This permits better logging.
1406 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1407 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1408 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1409 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1410 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1411 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1413 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1414 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1417 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1418 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1419 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1421 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1422 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1424 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1425 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1426 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1427 client, there is no benefit for these.
1428 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1429 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1430 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1433 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1434 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1436 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1437 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1438 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1440 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1441 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1443 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1444 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1445 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1446 signature and again for transmission.
1448 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1449 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1450 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1452 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1453 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1454 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1455 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1456 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1457 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1458 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1460 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1461 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1462 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1463 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1465 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1466 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1467 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1468 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1469 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1470 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1473 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1474 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1475 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1476 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1479 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1480 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1481 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1482 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1485 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1486 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1489 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1490 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1491 banner-time rejection.
1493 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1496 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1497 is the name of a transport.
1500 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1502 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1503 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1505 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1506 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1507 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1510 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1511 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1512 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1513 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1515 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1516 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1517 initial verify call returned a defer.
1519 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1520 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1522 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1523 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1525 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1526 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1528 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1529 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1531 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1532 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1535 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1536 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1538 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1539 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1540 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1542 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1543 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1544 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1545 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1547 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1548 and confused the parent.
1550 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1551 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1553 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1556 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1557 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1558 out-of-order delivery.
1560 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1561 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1562 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1565 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1566 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1569 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1570 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1571 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1573 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1574 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1575 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1576 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1577 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1578 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1580 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1581 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1582 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1584 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1585 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1586 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1588 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1589 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1590 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1591 though a different problem.
1597 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1598 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1600 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1602 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1603 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1605 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1606 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1608 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1609 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1610 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1611 before acknowledging the chunk.
1613 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1614 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1615 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1617 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1618 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1619 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1622 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1623 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1624 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1626 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1627 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1629 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1630 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1631 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1632 body hash calculated value.
1634 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1635 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1636 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1638 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1640 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1641 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1643 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1644 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1645 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1647 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1648 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1649 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1650 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1651 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1652 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1654 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1655 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1656 past that check, despite the cost.
1658 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1659 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1660 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1662 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1663 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1664 TLS library to consume.
1666 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1668 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1670 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1671 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1672 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1673 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1674 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1675 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1676 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1678 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1680 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1682 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1683 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1684 should be warning-free.
1686 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1688 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1689 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1691 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1692 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1693 general solution here.
1695 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1696 already-broken messages in the queue.
1698 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1700 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1706 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1707 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1709 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1710 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1711 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1713 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1714 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1715 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1716 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1717 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1718 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1719 if one fails this test.
1720 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1721 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1723 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1724 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1726 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1727 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1729 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1730 in rewrites and routers.
1732 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1733 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1735 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1736 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1738 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1740 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1743 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1744 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1745 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1746 connection after a verify cache hit.
1747 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1749 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1750 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1752 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1753 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1754 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1755 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1756 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1758 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1759 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1761 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1762 Previously they were not counted.
1764 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1765 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1766 that needed the lookup.
1768 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1769 distinguished as "(=".
1771 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1772 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1774 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1776 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1777 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1779 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1780 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1782 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1783 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1786 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1787 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1788 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1789 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1791 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1793 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1794 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1795 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1797 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1798 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1799 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1802 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1803 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1804 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1807 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1808 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1809 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1811 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1812 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1815 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1817 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1818 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1820 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1821 are not in the system include path.
1823 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1824 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1825 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1826 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1828 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1829 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1830 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1832 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1834 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1835 an incoming connection.
1837 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1840 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1841 fallback to "prime256v1".
1843 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1844 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1850 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1851 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1852 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1853 client dropping the TLS connection.
1855 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1856 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1858 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1859 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1860 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1861 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1864 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1865 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1866 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1867 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1868 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1869 check on the next write.
1871 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1872 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1873 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1874 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1875 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1877 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1878 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1880 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1881 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1882 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1884 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1885 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1886 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1887 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1889 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1890 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1892 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1893 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1895 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1896 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1897 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1900 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1902 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1904 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1906 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1907 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1909 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1910 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1912 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1914 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1915 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1917 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1919 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1920 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1922 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1924 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1925 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1926 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1927 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1928 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1929 they will retry in-clear.
1930 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1931 at installation time.
1933 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1934 with the $config_file variable.
1936 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1937 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1938 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1939 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1940 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1942 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1943 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1944 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1945 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1946 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1948 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1950 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1951 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1952 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1953 list order is no longer honoured.
1955 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1956 for DKIM processing.
1958 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1959 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1961 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1962 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1963 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1964 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1966 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1967 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1969 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1970 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1972 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1973 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1975 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1977 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1978 cached by the daemon.
1980 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1981 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1983 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1984 keys are given for lookup.
1986 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1987 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1988 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1989 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1991 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1992 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1993 server-side so match that on older versions.
1995 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1996 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1997 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1999 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2000 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2002 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2003 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2004 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2005 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2006 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2007 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2008 initial truncated version.
2010 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2012 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2014 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2015 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2017 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2019 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2021 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2022 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2025 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2026 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2029 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2030 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2032 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2033 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2036 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2037 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2038 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2040 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2041 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2042 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2043 extraction. Accept either.
2049 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2052 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2054 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2057 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2058 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2059 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2060 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2062 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2063 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2064 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2066 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2067 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2068 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2071 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2074 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2075 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2076 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2077 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2078 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2080 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2081 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2082 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2084 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2086 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2087 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2089 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2090 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2092 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2095 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2096 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2098 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2099 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2100 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2102 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2103 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2104 specify a port-range.
2106 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2107 timeout value per server.
2109 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2110 now have the list separator specified.
2112 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2115 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2118 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2120 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2121 rather than the verbs used.
2123 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2124 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2126 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2128 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2129 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2131 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2132 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2134 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2135 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2137 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2139 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2141 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2142 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2143 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2144 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2146 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2148 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2149 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2151 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2152 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2154 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2156 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2158 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2160 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2161 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2163 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2164 added for tls authenticator.
2166 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2172 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2173 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2174 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2175 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2176 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2177 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2178 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2180 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2181 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2182 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2183 function when detected.
2185 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2186 cause callback expansion.
2188 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2189 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2190 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2191 instead of bool when processing it.
2193 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2194 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2196 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2198 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2200 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2202 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2203 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2205 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2206 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2207 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2208 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2209 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2210 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2212 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2213 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2216 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2217 version 3.3.6 or later.
2219 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2220 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2221 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2222 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2223 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2224 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2227 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2228 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2230 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2231 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2232 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2235 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2236 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2237 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2239 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2240 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2242 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2243 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2246 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2248 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2249 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2251 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2252 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2255 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2257 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2260 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2261 output list separator was used.
2266 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2267 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2270 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2271 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2273 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2275 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2276 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2282 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2284 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2285 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2286 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2287 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2288 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2289 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2291 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2292 utilities have not been installed.
2294 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2295 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2297 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2298 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2300 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2301 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2302 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2303 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2305 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2307 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2308 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2310 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2313 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2315 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2316 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2317 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2319 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2320 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2321 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2322 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2323 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2324 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2326 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2328 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2329 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2331 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2334 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2336 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2338 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2339 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2341 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2342 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2344 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2346 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2348 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2349 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2351 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2352 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2353 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2355 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2356 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2357 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2360 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2362 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2363 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2366 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2367 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2370 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2371 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2373 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2374 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2376 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2378 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2379 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2380 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2382 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2383 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2385 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2386 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2389 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2390 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2391 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2393 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2395 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2396 Christian Aistleitner.
2398 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2400 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2401 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2403 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2404 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2406 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2407 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2409 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2410 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2412 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2413 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2415 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2416 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2417 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2419 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2421 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2422 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2425 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2427 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2428 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2435 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2437 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2438 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2440 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2443 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2444 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2447 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2449 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2450 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2451 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2452 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2453 using channel bindings instead).
2455 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2456 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2457 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2458 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2459 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2462 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2464 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2466 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2467 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2469 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2470 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2471 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2473 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2475 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2477 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2478 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2480 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2482 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2484 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2486 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2487 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2489 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2491 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2492 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2495 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2496 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2498 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2499 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2502 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2504 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2506 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2507 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2509 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2512 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2513 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2515 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2516 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2518 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2520 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2522 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2525 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2528 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2530 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2531 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2532 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2533 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2535 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2537 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2538 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2539 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2540 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2543 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2544 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2545 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2547 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2548 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2549 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2550 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2552 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2553 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2554 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2555 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2556 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2557 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2558 delivery, as in LMTP.
2560 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2561 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2563 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2565 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2569 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2570 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2571 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2572 username as equal to the username.
2574 This change corrects that bug.
2576 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2577 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2578 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2580 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2582 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2583 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2584 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2585 NULL dereference and crash.
2587 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2589 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2590 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2591 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2593 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2595 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2596 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2597 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2598 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2599 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2600 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2601 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2602 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2603 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2604 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2605 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2607 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2608 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2610 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2611 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2614 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2615 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2616 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2617 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2618 an empty string is now equivalent.
2620 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2621 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2622 not performing validation itself.
2624 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2625 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2627 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2630 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2632 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2633 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2634 other false fix of the same issue.
2635 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2638 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2639 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2641 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2642 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2643 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2645 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2646 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2647 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2649 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2651 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2653 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2654 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2656 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2659 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2660 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2661 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2662 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2663 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2665 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2666 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2668 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2669 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2672 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2673 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2674 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2675 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2677 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2679 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2680 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2681 from multiple comments on this bug.
2683 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2685 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2686 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2689 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2690 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2692 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2693 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2699 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2701 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2707 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2708 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2709 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2711 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2713 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2716 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2718 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2720 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2722 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2723 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2725 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2726 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2728 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2729 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2731 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2732 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2733 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2735 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2737 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2738 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2740 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2742 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2744 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2745 non-compliant senders.
2746 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2748 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2749 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2750 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2752 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2753 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2754 in spool file corruption.
2756 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2757 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2758 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2761 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2762 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2763 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2765 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2766 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2768 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2770 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2772 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2774 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2775 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2776 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2778 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2779 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2780 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2781 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2783 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2784 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2786 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2787 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2788 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2789 resolver implementation change.
2791 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2792 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2794 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2796 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2798 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2799 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2801 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2802 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2804 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2805 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2807 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2808 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2809 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2810 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2811 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2813 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2815 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2816 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2817 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2819 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2821 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2822 read-only, out of scope).
2823 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2825 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2826 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2827 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2828 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2830 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2832 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2833 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2834 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2835 real issues in debug logging.
2837 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2838 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2840 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2841 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2842 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2844 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2845 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2846 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2849 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2850 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2852 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2853 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2854 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2855 needs to override this, it can.
2857 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2858 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2859 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2861 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2862 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2863 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2864 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2866 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2872 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2873 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2875 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2877 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2880 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2881 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2883 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2884 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2885 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2887 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2888 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2889 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2890 not safe for signals.
2892 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2893 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2894 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2895 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2898 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2900 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2901 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2902 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2903 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2904 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2906 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2907 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2908 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2909 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2910 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2911 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2913 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2914 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2915 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2916 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2918 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2919 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2920 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2921 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2923 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2924 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2925 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2926 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2927 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2928 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2929 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2930 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2931 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2933 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2934 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2935 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2936 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2938 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2939 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2940 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2941 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2942 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2943 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2944 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2945 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2946 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2947 details in the main documentation.
2949 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2951 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2953 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2954 repository when doing development or release builds.
2956 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2957 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2959 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2960 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2963 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2965 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2966 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2968 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2969 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2971 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2972 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2974 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2975 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2977 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2978 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2980 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2982 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2985 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2986 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2987 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2989 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2991 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2993 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2994 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3000 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3002 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3003 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3005 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3007 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3009 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3012 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3013 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3015 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3016 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3018 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3019 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3021 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3024 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3025 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3027 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3028 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3029 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3030 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3032 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3033 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3039 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3042 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3043 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3044 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3046 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3047 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3049 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3050 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3051 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3053 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3054 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3056 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3057 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3059 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3060 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3062 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3063 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3065 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3066 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3068 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3071 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3072 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3074 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3075 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3077 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3078 SQL string expansion failure details.
3079 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3081 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3082 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3084 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3085 extern declarations in function scope.
3086 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3088 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3089 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3090 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3093 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3094 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3096 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3097 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3099 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3100 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3102 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3103 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3105 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3106 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3109 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3111 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3113 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3114 Patch by Simon Arlott
3116 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3117 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3123 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3124 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3126 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3127 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3129 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3131 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3132 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3133 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3135 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3136 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3137 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3139 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3140 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3141 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3142 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3144 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3145 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3146 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3147 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3149 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3150 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3151 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3154 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3157 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3158 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3159 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3160 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3161 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3167 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3168 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3169 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3171 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3172 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3174 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3176 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3178 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3180 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3182 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3184 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3185 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3186 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3187 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3189 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3190 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3191 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3192 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3193 more caution in buffer sizes.
3195 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3197 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3199 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3201 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3203 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3205 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3207 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3209 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3210 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3211 ignore trailing whitespace.
3213 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3215 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3218 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3219 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3221 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3222 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3223 Notification from John Horne.
3225 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3228 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3229 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3232 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3235 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3236 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3237 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3239 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3240 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3241 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3244 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3245 option (effectively making it always true).
3247 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3248 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3250 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3251 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3253 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3254 run-time user, instead of root.
3256 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3257 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3259 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3260 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3263 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3264 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3265 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3267 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3269 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3275 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3276 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3279 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3280 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3283 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3284 Patch from Alain Williams
3286 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3288 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3289 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3291 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3292 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3294 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3296 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3298 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3299 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3301 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3303 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3305 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3306 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3307 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3309 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3310 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3312 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3313 Patch by Simon Arlott
3315 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3316 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3322 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3324 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3326 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3328 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3330 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3336 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3337 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3339 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3340 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3343 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3344 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3345 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3347 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3348 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3350 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3351 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3352 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3353 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3355 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3356 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3357 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3359 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3361 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3363 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3364 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3366 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3368 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3369 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3370 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3371 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3373 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3374 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3376 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3378 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3380 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3381 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3383 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3384 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3386 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3387 that they are available at delivery time.
3389 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3391 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3392 incoming_port log selectors.
3394 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3395 setting expands to an empty string.
3397 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3398 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3400 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3401 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3403 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3404 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3406 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3407 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3409 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3410 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3412 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3413 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3415 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3417 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3418 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3420 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3421 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3423 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3425 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3426 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3428 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3430 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3432 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3435 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3436 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3438 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3439 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3441 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3442 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3444 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3445 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3447 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3448 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3450 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3451 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3453 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3454 plus update to original patch.
3456 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3458 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3459 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3461 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3463 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3465 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3467 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3469 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3470 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3472 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3473 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3475 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3476 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3478 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3479 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3481 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3483 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3485 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3487 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3493 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3494 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3495 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3497 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3498 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3499 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3500 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3501 build errors in sieve.c.
3503 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3504 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3505 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3507 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3509 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3511 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3513 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3519 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3521 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3522 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3523 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3524 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3525 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3526 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3527 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3528 for iplsearch lookups.
3530 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3531 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3532 previously such lookups could never work.
3534 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3535 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3536 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3538 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3541 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3542 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3543 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3544 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3545 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3546 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3548 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3549 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3551 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3552 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3553 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3554 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3555 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3556 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3558 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3561 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3563 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3564 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3567 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3568 by clients under certain conditions.
3570 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3571 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3573 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3575 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3576 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3578 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3580 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3582 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3584 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3585 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3587 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3589 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3590 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3592 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3594 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3596 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3597 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3598 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3599 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3601 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3602 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3603 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3605 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3606 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3608 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3610 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3612 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3614 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3615 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3616 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3622 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3623 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3626 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3627 issue a MAIL command.
3629 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3631 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3633 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3634 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3635 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3636 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3637 item. This has been fixed.
3639 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3640 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3642 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3643 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3645 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3646 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3647 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3649 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3651 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3652 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3653 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3654 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3655 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3657 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3658 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3659 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3661 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3662 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3663 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3664 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3666 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3668 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3670 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3671 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3672 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3673 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3674 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3676 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3678 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3679 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3680 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3683 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3685 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3687 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3689 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3691 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3693 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3694 no_callout_flush is set.
3696 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3697 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3698 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3701 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3703 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3704 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3705 other ACL rejections are.
3707 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3708 with slight modification.
3710 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3711 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3713 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3714 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3717 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3718 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3720 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3722 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3723 expansion side effects.
3725 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3726 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3727 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3730 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3731 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3732 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3734 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3735 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3736 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3737 were accidentally chopped off.
3739 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3740 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3741 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3742 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3743 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3744 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3745 pipelining has not been advertised.
3747 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3749 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3750 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3751 This has been fixed.
3753 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3754 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3755 reported on Solaris.
3757 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3758 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3759 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3760 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3761 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3762 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3763 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3765 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3768 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3770 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3772 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3773 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3774 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3775 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3776 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3777 criteria to be more general.
3779 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3780 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3781 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3782 host_all_ignored option.
3784 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3785 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3786 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3787 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3788 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3789 is what is supposed to happen).
3791 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3792 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3793 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3794 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3795 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3798 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3799 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3800 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3801 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3802 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3803 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3806 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3808 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3809 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3811 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3812 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3814 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3816 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3818 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3819 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3820 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3821 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3822 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3823 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3824 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3825 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3826 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3827 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3828 least in a lot of common cases.
3830 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3831 advertised in response to EHLO.
3837 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3838 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3840 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3841 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3843 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3844 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3845 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3847 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3848 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3849 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3850 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3851 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3857 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3858 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3861 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3862 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3863 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3865 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3866 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3867 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3868 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3869 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3870 rather than extend the field.
3876 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3877 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3878 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3879 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3882 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3883 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3884 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3886 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3887 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3888 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3890 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3891 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3892 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3895 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3896 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3897 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3898 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3899 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3900 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3901 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3902 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3903 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3904 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3905 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3907 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3910 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3911 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3912 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3913 ignores EPIPE as well.
3915 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3916 (quoted-printable decoding).
3918 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3919 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3921 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3923 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3925 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3927 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3928 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3930 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3933 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3934 miscellaneous code fixes
3936 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3939 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3940 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3941 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3942 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3943 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3944 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3945 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3946 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3948 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3949 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3950 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3951 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3953 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3954 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3955 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3956 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3957 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3958 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3959 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3960 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3961 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3963 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3966 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3967 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3968 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3969 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3970 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3971 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3972 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3973 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3975 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3976 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3979 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3980 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3981 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3982 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3983 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3984 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3985 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3986 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3987 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3988 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3989 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3990 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3991 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3993 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3994 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3995 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3996 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3997 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3998 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3999 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4001 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4002 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4003 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4004 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4005 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4006 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4007 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4008 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4009 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4010 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4012 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4013 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4014 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4015 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4016 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4018 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4019 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4020 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4021 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4022 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4023 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4024 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4026 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4027 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4028 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4029 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4030 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4031 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4034 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4035 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4036 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4039 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4040 if any retry times were supplied.
4042 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4043 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4044 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4046 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4048 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4050 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4051 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4052 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4053 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4054 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4055 before) are ignored.
4057 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4058 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4060 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4061 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4062 committing the later change.]
4064 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4065 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4066 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4067 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4068 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4069 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4070 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4071 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4072 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4074 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4075 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4076 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4077 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4078 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4079 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4080 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4081 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4082 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4084 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4085 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4086 hammering the server.
4088 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4089 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4091 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4093 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4094 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4095 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4097 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4098 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4099 one case where this was not true.
4101 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4102 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4103 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4104 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4107 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4108 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4109 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4110 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4111 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4112 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4113 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4114 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4115 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4118 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4119 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4120 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4121 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4123 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4124 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4126 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4127 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4128 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4130 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4132 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4134 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4136 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4137 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4138 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4139 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4141 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4142 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4144 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4145 be meaningful with "accept".
4147 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4148 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4150 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4151 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4152 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4154 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4155 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4156 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4157 there is data to show.
4158 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4160 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4161 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4162 as well as the number of messages.
4164 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4165 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4166 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4168 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4169 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4170 have a flag are now skipped.
4172 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4173 Added the -emptyok flag.
4175 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4176 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4178 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4179 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4180 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4182 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4185 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4186 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4188 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4190 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4191 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4193 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4195 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4196 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4197 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4198 contravention of the specifications.
4200 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4201 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4202 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4204 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4205 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4206 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4208 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4210 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4211 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4212 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4213 some point in the past.
4215 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4216 transport during callout processing was broken.
4218 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4219 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4221 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4222 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4224 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4225 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4227 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4233 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4234 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4236 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4237 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4238 there is data to show.
4239 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4241 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4242 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4244 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4245 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4247 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4248 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4250 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4251 submissions from trusted users.
4253 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4254 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4256 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4257 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4258 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4259 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4260 there is now a framework to start from.
4262 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4263 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4264 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4266 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4268 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4270 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4272 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4273 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4274 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4276 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4279 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4280 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4281 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4283 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4284 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4285 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4288 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4289 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4290 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4291 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4292 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4294 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4295 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4297 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4299 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4300 operations in malware.c.
4302 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4305 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4306 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4307 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4310 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4311 statements to "add_header".
4313 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4314 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4316 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4317 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4320 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4324 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4325 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4326 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4329 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4330 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4332 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4333 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4335 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4336 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4337 any possible encoding problems.
4339 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4340 but not after initializing Perl.
4342 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4343 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4344 apparently, which is not desirable.
4346 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4349 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4352 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4354 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4355 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4356 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4357 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4359 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4360 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4361 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4363 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4364 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4365 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4368 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4369 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4370 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4371 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4372 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4378 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4379 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4381 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4384 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4385 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4386 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4387 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4388 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4389 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4390 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4391 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4394 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4396 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4397 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4398 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4400 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4401 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4402 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4405 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4406 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4408 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4409 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4410 option (which defaults to 0600).
4412 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4414 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4415 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4416 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4417 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4418 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4419 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4420 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4422 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4428 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4429 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4430 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4431 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4432 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4433 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4436 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4437 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4439 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4441 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4442 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4443 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4444 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4445 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4448 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4449 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4451 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4452 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4453 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4454 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4455 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4457 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4458 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4459 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4460 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4462 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4463 be the same on different OS.
4465 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4468 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4469 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4471 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4474 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4475 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4476 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4477 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4478 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4479 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4482 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4483 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4484 when Exim was called.
4486 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4487 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4489 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4490 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4491 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4492 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4494 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4495 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4496 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4497 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4500 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4501 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4502 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4504 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4505 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4506 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4508 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4511 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4512 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4513 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4514 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4515 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4516 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4517 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4518 values from the SRV records were lost.
4520 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4521 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4522 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4524 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4525 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4526 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4528 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4529 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4530 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4531 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4532 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4533 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4534 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4535 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4536 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4537 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4539 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4540 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4541 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4543 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4544 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4546 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4547 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4548 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4549 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4552 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4553 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4554 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4556 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4557 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4558 PH/23 above applies.
4560 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4561 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4562 (for which there is an explicit test).
4564 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4566 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4567 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4568 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4569 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4570 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4572 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4573 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4574 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4575 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4577 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4578 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4579 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4581 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4583 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4585 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4586 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4587 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4589 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4590 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4591 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4592 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4593 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4595 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4596 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4597 the message gets confusing).
4599 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4600 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4601 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4602 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4604 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4605 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4606 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4607 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4610 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4611 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4612 the different processes.
4614 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4616 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4618 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4619 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4621 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4622 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4624 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4625 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4626 messages matching specified criteria.
4628 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4630 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4631 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4633 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4634 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4635 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4636 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4637 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4638 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4639 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4640 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4641 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4642 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4644 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4645 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4646 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4648 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4650 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4651 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4652 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4653 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4654 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4655 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4656 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4659 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4660 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4662 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4664 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4666 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4668 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4669 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4670 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4671 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4672 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4673 size of the count of files.
4675 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4677 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4680 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4681 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4682 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4683 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4685 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4686 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4687 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4689 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4690 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4691 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4692 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4693 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4695 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4696 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4698 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4699 will now be deprecated.
4701 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4703 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4704 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4705 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4707 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4708 with very large, slow to parse queues
4710 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4712 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4714 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4715 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4716 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4719 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4720 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4721 Sieve code now uses this.
4723 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4724 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4726 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4727 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4729 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4731 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4732 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4733 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4734 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4735 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4737 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4738 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4739 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4740 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4742 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4744 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4746 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4747 is preferred over IPv4.
4749 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4750 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4751 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4752 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4753 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4754 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4755 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4757 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4758 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4759 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4761 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4763 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4764 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4765 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4766 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4767 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4768 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4769 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4770 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4771 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4772 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4773 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4775 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4776 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4777 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4783 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4785 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4786 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4788 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4789 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4790 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4792 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4794 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4797 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4800 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4801 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4802 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4805 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4806 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4808 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4809 inside the third argument.
4811 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4812 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4815 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4816 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4818 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4819 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4821 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4823 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4824 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4827 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4829 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4830 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4831 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4832 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4833 identical. For example:
4835 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4837 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4838 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4839 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4841 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4842 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4843 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4844 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4846 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4847 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4848 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4851 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4853 o fixes some comments
4854 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4855 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4856 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4857 and documents the missing references header update
4861 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4862 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4865 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4866 Electronic Mail") by including:
4868 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4870 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4871 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4872 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4873 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4874 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4876 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4878 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4880 The auto-replied keyword:
4882 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4883 message by an automatic process,
4885 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4887 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4888 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4890 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4891 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4894 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4895 to the default Received: header definition.
4897 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4899 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4900 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4901 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4903 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4904 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4905 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4907 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4908 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4909 and treats the condition as false.
4911 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4913 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4914 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4915 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4916 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4917 not changing the active code.
4919 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4920 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4922 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4923 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4925 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4928 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4929 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4930 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4931 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4932 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4933 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4934 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4935 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4936 the text comparison.
4938 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4939 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4940 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4941 The same fix has been applied.
4947 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4948 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4951 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4952 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4954 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4956 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4957 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4958 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4959 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4960 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4962 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4963 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4964 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4965 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4968 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4976 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4977 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4979 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4981 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4983 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4984 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4985 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4987 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4988 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4989 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4991 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4992 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4995 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4996 ${stat: expansion item.
4998 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4999 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5001 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5002 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5005 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5007 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5010 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5011 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5013 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5015 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5016 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5017 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5018 the end of the subprocess.
5020 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5021 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5022 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5023 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5024 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5026 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5028 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5030 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5031 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5033 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5035 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5037 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5038 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5041 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5043 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5044 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5045 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5047 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5048 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5050 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5051 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5053 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5054 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5056 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5057 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5059 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5060 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5061 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5062 contributed by a Radius user.
5064 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5065 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5067 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5068 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5070 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5073 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5074 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5077 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5078 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5079 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5080 header lines when this was not necessary.
5082 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5084 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5085 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5086 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5089 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5092 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5093 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5094 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5095 return code was incorrect.
5097 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5099 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5101 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5103 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5105 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5106 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5107 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5108 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5109 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5112 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5114 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5115 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5116 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5117 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5118 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5119 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5120 which is clearly wrong.
5122 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5124 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5125 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5126 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5129 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5130 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5132 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5134 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5135 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5137 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5138 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5140 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5141 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5143 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5144 recipients, not senders.
5146 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5147 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5149 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5151 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5153 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5154 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5155 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5156 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5158 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5160 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5161 clock is set back in time.
5163 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5164 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5166 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5167 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5169 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5170 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5173 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5174 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5177 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5180 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5182 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5183 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5184 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5186 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5187 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5188 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5189 helo verification defer as a failure.
5191 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5192 actual error message.
5198 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5200 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5201 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5202 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5203 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5205 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5207 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5208 can still be requested.
5210 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5211 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5212 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5213 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5215 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5216 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5217 circumstances, but probably never did.
5219 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5220 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5221 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5224 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5226 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5227 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5229 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5231 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5233 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5234 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5235 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5236 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5237 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5238 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5240 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5241 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5242 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5243 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5244 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5245 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5247 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5248 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5250 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5251 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5253 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5254 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5256 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5258 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5260 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5262 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5264 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5266 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5268 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5270 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5271 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5272 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5274 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5275 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5276 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5277 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5279 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5280 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5281 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5283 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5284 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5285 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5286 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5288 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5289 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5292 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5293 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5294 should work with maildirs and everything.
5296 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5297 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5299 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5302 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5303 function for BDB 4.3.
5305 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5307 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5308 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5311 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5312 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5313 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5314 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5315 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5316 formatting function string_vformat().
5318 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5319 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5320 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5321 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5322 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5323 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5324 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5325 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5327 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5328 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5331 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5332 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5334 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5335 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5336 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5337 test. It is now used for both.
5339 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5340 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5341 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5342 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5343 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5344 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5346 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5347 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5348 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5351 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5352 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5353 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5355 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5356 experimental DomainKeys support:
5358 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5359 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5360 the control was given.
5362 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5364 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5366 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5368 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5369 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5370 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5373 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5374 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5375 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5376 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5377 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5378 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5381 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5382 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5383 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5384 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5385 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5386 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5388 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5389 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5390 do -d+all out of habit.
5392 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5393 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5396 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5397 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5398 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5399 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5400 record types that Exim uses.
5402 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5403 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5404 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5405 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5406 non-existent file that was broken.
5408 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5409 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5411 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5412 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5413 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5415 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5417 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5418 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5419 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5420 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5421 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5424 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5425 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5426 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5427 at a slight CPU cost.
5429 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5430 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5432 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5435 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5437 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5438 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5444 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5445 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5447 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5449 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5451 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5452 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5454 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5455 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5456 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5457 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5458 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5459 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5462 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5463 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5464 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5465 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5468 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5469 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5470 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5471 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5472 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5473 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5474 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5477 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5478 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5480 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5481 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5482 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5483 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5484 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5485 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5487 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5488 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5489 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5490 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5492 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5495 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5496 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5498 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5499 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5500 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5501 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5504 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5506 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5507 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5509 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5510 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5511 to what was transported.)
5513 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5515 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5516 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5517 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5518 spamd_address settings.
5520 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5521 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5522 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5523 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5524 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5526 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5528 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5529 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5530 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5531 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5532 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5534 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5535 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5537 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5538 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5539 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5540 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5541 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5542 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5543 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5546 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5547 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5548 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5549 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5550 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5551 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5552 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5555 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5557 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5558 driver and ACL definitions.
5560 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5561 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5563 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5564 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5565 understands it better than I do:
5567 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5568 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5570 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5571 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5572 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5573 => three warnings about OTP not working
5574 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5576 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5577 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5578 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5579 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5581 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5582 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5584 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5585 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5586 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5588 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5589 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5592 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5593 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5596 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5597 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5598 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5600 warn !verify = sender
5601 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5603 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5604 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5606 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5608 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5609 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5611 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5612 nomenclature these days.)
5614 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5615 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5617 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5618 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5619 . First host does not offer TLS;
5620 . First host accepts first address;
5621 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5622 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5623 . Second host accepts second address.
5624 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5625 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5628 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5629 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5630 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5631 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5632 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5634 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5635 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5637 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5638 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5640 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5641 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5642 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5644 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5645 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5648 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5650 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5651 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5652 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5653 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5654 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5655 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5656 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5658 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5659 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5660 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5661 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5662 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5664 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5665 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5668 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5669 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5670 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5671 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5672 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5673 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5675 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5677 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5678 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5679 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5680 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5681 printable escape sequences.
5683 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5684 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5687 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5688 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5691 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5692 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5693 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5694 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5695 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5697 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5698 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5699 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5701 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5703 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5704 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5707 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5708 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5709 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5710 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5711 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5712 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5713 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5714 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5715 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5718 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5719 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5720 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5721 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5725 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5726 ----------------------------------------
5728 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5729 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5730 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5731 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5732 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5733 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5736 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5737 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5738 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5739 historical information.
5745 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5747 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5748 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5750 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5751 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5754 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5755 filter fails to execute.
5757 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5758 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5759 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5760 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5761 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5763 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5765 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5766 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5767 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5768 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5770 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5771 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5772 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5773 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5774 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5776 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5778 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5780 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5781 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5782 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5783 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5785 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5786 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5787 sender verification.
5789 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5790 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5792 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5794 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5797 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5798 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5800 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5801 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5803 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5804 information about exactly what failed.
5806 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5808 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5809 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5810 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5812 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5813 It is now set to "smtps".
5815 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5816 ignore_target_hosts.
5818 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5819 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5820 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5821 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5824 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5825 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5826 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5828 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5829 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5830 wake it up if nothing else does.
5832 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5833 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5834 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5837 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5838 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5840 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5842 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5843 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5844 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5845 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5846 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5847 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5848 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5849 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5851 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5852 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5853 than one IP address.
5855 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5856 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5857 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5858 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5860 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5861 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5862 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5863 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5864 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5867 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5868 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5869 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5870 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5872 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5873 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5876 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5877 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5878 $sender_host_address.
5880 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5881 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5882 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5883 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5884 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5887 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5889 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5890 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5892 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5893 just the host names, not the priorities.
5895 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5896 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5897 controlled by a keyword.
5899 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5900 multiple records are returned.
5902 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5903 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5906 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5908 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5909 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5911 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5912 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5913 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5915 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5917 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5919 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5921 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5922 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5923 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5924 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5925 because the tests only now provoked it.
5927 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5928 (this can affect the format of dates).
5930 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5931 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5932 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5933 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5935 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5937 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5938 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5939 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5940 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5942 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5943 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5944 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5946 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5949 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5950 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5951 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5952 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5953 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5954 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5957 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5958 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5959 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5962 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5963 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5964 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5966 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5967 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5968 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5969 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5970 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5971 so I produce this patch..."
5973 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5974 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5977 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5978 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5979 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5980 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5983 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5985 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5986 long debug lines gets shown.
5988 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5989 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5991 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5993 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5994 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5995 of $primary_hostname.
5997 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5998 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5999 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6000 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6001 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6002 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6003 by change 4.50/55 above.
6005 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6006 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6007 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6008 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6009 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6010 running as the user.
6013 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6014 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6015 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6018 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6019 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6021 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6022 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6023 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6024 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6025 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6027 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6028 This has been fixed.
6030 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6031 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6032 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6033 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6036 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6038 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6039 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6040 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6041 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6043 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6044 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6046 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6047 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6048 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6050 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6051 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6052 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6055 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6056 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6057 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6059 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6060 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6061 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6062 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6064 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6065 during host lookups.
6067 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6068 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6070 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6072 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6073 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6074 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6075 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6076 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6079 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6080 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6082 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6083 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6084 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6086 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6088 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6089 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6090 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6091 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6092 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6093 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6096 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6097 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6098 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6099 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6100 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6102 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6105 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6107 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6108 "vacation" handling.
6110 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6111 OS variants using glibc.
6113 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6116 ----------------------------------------------------
6117 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6118 ----------------------------------------------------
6124 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6125 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6128 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6129 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6132 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6133 filter fails to execute.
6135 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6136 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6137 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6138 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6139 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6141 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6142 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6143 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6144 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6146 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6147 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6148 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6149 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6150 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6152 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6154 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6155 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6156 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6157 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6159 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6160 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6161 sender verification.
6163 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6164 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6166 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6167 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6169 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6170 ignore_target_hosts.
6172 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6173 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6174 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6175 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6178 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6179 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6180 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6182 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6183 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6184 wake it up if nothing else does.
6186 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6187 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6188 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6191 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6192 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6194 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6196 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6197 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6200 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6201 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6204 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6205 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6206 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6207 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6208 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6211 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6212 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6215 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6216 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6217 $sender_host_address.
6219 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6221 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6222 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6223 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6225 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6228 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6229 (this can affect the format of dates).
6231 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6232 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6233 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6234 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6236 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6237 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6238 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6240 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6241 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6242 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6243 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6245 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6246 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6247 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6249 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6252 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6253 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6254 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6255 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6256 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6257 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6260 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6261 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6262 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6263 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6266 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6267 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6268 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6269 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6270 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6271 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6272 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6274 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6275 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6276 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6277 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6278 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6279 running as the user.
6282 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6283 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6284 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6287 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6288 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6289 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6290 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6291 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6293 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6294 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6295 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6296 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6299 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6300 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6301 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6302 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6303 because the tests only now provoked it.
6309 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6310 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6311 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6312 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6313 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6314 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6315 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6317 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6318 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6321 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6323 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6325 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6326 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6329 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6330 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6331 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6332 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6333 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6335 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6336 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6338 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6340 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6342 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6345 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6346 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6348 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6349 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6350 affecting debugging statements).
6352 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6354 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6355 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6356 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6357 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6358 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6359 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6360 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6361 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6362 after the received time, and all would be well.
6364 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6365 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6366 condition in an expansion string.
6368 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6370 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6371 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6372 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6373 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6374 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6375 job under whatever limits there are.
6377 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6379 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6382 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6383 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6384 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6385 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6388 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6389 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6390 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6391 binary data in such strings.
6393 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6395 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6396 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6397 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6398 failure, which is pointless.
6400 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6402 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6404 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6405 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6406 Sender: header lines.
6408 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6409 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6410 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6412 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6413 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6414 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6415 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6416 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6419 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6420 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6421 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6422 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6423 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6425 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6426 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6427 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6430 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6431 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6433 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6434 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6436 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6438 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6440 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6442 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6445 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6447 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6449 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6450 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6451 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6452 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6454 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6455 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6461 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6462 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6463 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6465 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6466 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6467 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6468 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6469 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6470 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6472 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6473 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6474 verification failure".
6476 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6477 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6478 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6479 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6481 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6482 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6483 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6484 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6485 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6486 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6487 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6488 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6489 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6490 treated as a timeout.
6492 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6493 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6494 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6495 not set for Exim filters).
6497 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6498 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6499 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6501 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6503 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6504 try to make them clearer.
6506 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6507 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6509 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6511 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6513 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6514 only the Cygwin environment.
6516 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6517 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6518 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6519 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6520 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6522 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6523 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6524 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6525 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6526 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6527 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6528 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6530 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6531 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6533 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6535 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6536 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6537 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6539 To: susanne@some.where
6541 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6542 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6543 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6544 of addresses in From: header lines).
6546 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6547 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6548 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6550 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6551 treated as non-personal.
6553 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6554 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6556 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6558 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6560 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6561 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6562 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6564 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6565 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6567 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6568 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6569 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6570 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6571 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6572 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6574 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6575 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6576 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6577 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6578 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6579 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6580 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6581 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6583 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6585 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6586 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6588 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6589 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6590 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6592 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6593 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6595 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6596 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6597 rather than long int.
6599 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6601 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6607 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6608 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6609 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6610 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6611 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6612 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6618 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6619 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6621 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6622 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6623 socklen_t is defined.
6625 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6628 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6631 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6632 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6633 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6634 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6635 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6637 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6638 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6639 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6640 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6642 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6643 of flapping under certain conditions.
6645 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6646 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6647 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6649 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6651 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6653 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6654 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6655 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6656 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6658 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6659 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6660 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6661 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6662 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6663 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6664 preserved with the message after it was received.
6666 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6667 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6668 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6669 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6670 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6671 test suite worked just fine.
6673 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6674 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6675 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6677 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6678 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6681 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6682 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6683 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6684 does not fully solve it.
6686 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6687 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6688 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6689 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6690 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6692 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6693 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6694 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6696 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6697 string, for example:
6699 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6701 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6702 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6703 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6704 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6705 the routers could not see them.
6707 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6708 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6710 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6711 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6714 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6715 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6716 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6717 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6718 that needed quoting.
6720 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6721 was not being matched caselessly.
6723 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6726 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6727 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6728 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6729 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6730 when use_sender is false.
6732 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6734 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6736 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6738 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6739 the configuration file.
6741 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6742 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6744 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6746 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6747 bytes in the message body.
6749 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6750 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6753 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6755 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6757 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6758 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6759 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6760 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6767 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6768 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6770 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6771 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6772 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6773 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6774 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6776 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6777 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6779 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6780 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6781 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6783 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6784 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6785 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6787 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6790 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6791 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6792 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6793 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6794 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6795 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6796 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6802 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6803 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6804 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6805 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6806 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6807 default (and expected) setting.
6809 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6810 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6811 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6812 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6814 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6815 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6817 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6820 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6821 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6822 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6823 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6824 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6825 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6827 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6828 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6829 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6831 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6832 part (NOT match_host).
6834 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6836 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6837 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6838 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6839 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6840 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6841 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6842 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6843 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6844 the same named file.
6846 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6847 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6850 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6851 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6852 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6853 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6856 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6857 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6858 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6860 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6862 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6864 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6866 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6867 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6869 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6870 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6871 before starting the TLS session.
6873 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6875 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6876 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6878 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6879 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6880 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6881 colon in the middle).
6887 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6888 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6889 multiple configurations are in use.
6891 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6892 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6893 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6894 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6895 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6896 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6898 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6899 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6901 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6902 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6903 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6905 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6906 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6909 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6910 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6912 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6914 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6915 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6917 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6925 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6926 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6927 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6928 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6929 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6931 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6934 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6935 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6936 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6937 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6938 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6939 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6941 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6942 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6943 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6944 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6945 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6946 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6947 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6950 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6951 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6952 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6953 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6954 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6956 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6958 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6959 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6960 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6962 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6964 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6965 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6966 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6969 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6970 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6972 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6973 Three changes have been made:
6975 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6976 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6977 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6978 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6979 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6981 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6984 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6985 the modified behaviour.
6991 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6994 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6995 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6997 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6998 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6999 try to track down a specific problem.
7001 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7002 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7003 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7005 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7008 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7009 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7010 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7011 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7012 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7013 some earlier ones do not.
7015 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7017 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7018 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7019 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7020 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7021 address literals are enabled, of course).
7023 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7025 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7026 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7027 by a command such as
7031 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7033 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7035 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7036 remained set. It is now erased.
7038 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7039 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7041 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7042 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7043 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7044 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7045 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7046 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7047 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7048 appropriate error code.
7050 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7051 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7052 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7053 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7054 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7055 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7057 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7058 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7059 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7061 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7062 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7063 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7064 terminate the header.
7066 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7067 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7068 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7070 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7071 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7072 (4.30/29). In particular:
7074 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7077 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7078 to write a maildirsize file.
7080 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7081 the transport, the new value overrides.
7083 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7086 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7087 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7088 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7091 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7092 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7093 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7096 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7097 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7098 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7100 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7101 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7104 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7105 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7106 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7108 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7110 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7112 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7114 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7115 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7118 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7119 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7120 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7121 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7122 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7123 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7124 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7127 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7128 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7129 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7130 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7131 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7134 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7135 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7136 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7137 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7138 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7139 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7140 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7141 cached value only when the same options are set.
7143 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7145 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7146 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7147 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7148 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7149 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7151 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7152 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7153 it is clearly obsolete.
7155 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7158 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7159 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7160 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7163 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7164 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7165 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7166 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7167 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7169 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7170 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7171 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7172 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7174 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7176 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7178 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7179 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7182 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7183 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7184 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7185 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7186 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7187 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7190 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7191 with the -f command-line option.
7193 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7194 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7195 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7196 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7197 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7198 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7200 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7201 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7204 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7205 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7206 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7207 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7208 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7209 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7210 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7211 buffer is too small.
7213 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7214 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7216 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7217 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7218 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7219 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7220 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7221 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7222 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7223 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7224 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7226 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7227 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7228 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7230 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7231 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7234 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7235 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7236 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7237 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7238 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7240 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7241 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7242 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7243 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7246 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7248 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7250 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7251 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7253 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7254 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7255 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7257 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7258 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7259 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7260 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7261 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7263 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7264 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7265 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7266 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7267 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7268 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7269 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7271 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7272 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7273 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7274 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7275 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7276 the test of how many are available.
7278 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7279 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7280 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7281 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7282 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7283 new message is started.
7285 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7286 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7288 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7289 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7291 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7292 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7293 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7296 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7297 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7298 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7299 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7300 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7301 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7302 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7304 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7305 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7306 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7307 interpreted as octal.
7309 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7312 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7313 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7314 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7315 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7316 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7317 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7319 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7320 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7321 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7322 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7324 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7325 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7326 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7327 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7329 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7330 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7333 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7334 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7336 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7338 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7339 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7340 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7341 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7343 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7344 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7345 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7346 supplied", which is not helpful.
7348 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7349 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7350 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7352 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7353 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7354 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7355 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7356 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7357 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7358 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7359 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7361 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7362 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7363 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7364 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7365 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7367 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7368 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7369 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7370 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7371 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7372 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7374 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7375 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7376 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7378 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7380 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7381 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7382 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7385 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7387 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7388 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7389 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7390 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7391 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7392 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7393 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7394 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7396 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7397 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7398 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7399 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7400 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7402 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7405 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7406 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7407 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7408 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7409 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7410 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7411 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7412 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7413 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7419 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7420 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7421 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7423 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7426 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7427 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7428 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7430 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7431 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7432 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7433 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7434 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7435 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7437 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7438 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7439 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7440 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7441 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7442 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7443 the Exim test suite.
7445 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7446 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7447 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7448 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7450 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7451 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7452 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7453 specify it in this variable.
7455 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7456 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7457 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7458 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7460 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7461 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7462 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7463 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7465 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7466 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7467 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7468 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7469 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7471 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7473 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7476 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7477 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7478 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7479 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7480 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7482 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7483 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7485 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7486 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7487 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7488 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7489 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7491 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7492 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7494 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7495 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7496 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7498 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7499 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7501 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7502 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7504 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7505 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7506 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7508 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7509 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7511 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7512 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7513 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7514 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7516 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7518 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7519 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7520 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7521 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7523 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7525 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7526 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7528 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7530 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7531 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7532 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7533 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7534 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7535 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7537 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7539 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7540 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7543 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7545 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7546 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7548 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7549 550 Sender verify failed
7551 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7552 the final line of the response.
7554 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7555 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7556 all other user lookups.
7558 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7561 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7562 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7563 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7564 result into an int without checking.
7566 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7567 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7568 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7570 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7571 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7572 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7573 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7575 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7578 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7579 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7581 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7582 to the empty sender.
7584 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7585 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7586 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7587 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7588 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7589 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7590 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7593 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7594 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7595 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7596 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7599 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7600 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7602 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7605 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7606 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7608 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7610 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7611 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7614 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7615 as soon as it is encountered.
7617 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7619 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7622 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7623 recognizes a tab character.
7625 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7626 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7627 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7628 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7630 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7632 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7635 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7637 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7639 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7640 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7643 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7644 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7645 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7646 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7647 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7649 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7650 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7652 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7653 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7654 list (.included file names were always shown).
7656 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7657 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7658 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7661 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7662 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7664 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7666 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7668 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7670 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7671 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7672 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7673 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7674 failures to open the logs.
7676 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7677 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7678 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7679 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7680 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7681 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7682 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7688 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7689 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7690 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7693 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7694 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7695 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7697 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7698 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7699 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7701 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7702 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7703 causing some misleading effects.
7705 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7706 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7707 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7709 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7710 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7711 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7712 queue-runner function directly.
7718 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7721 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7722 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7723 was always written to the default place.
7725 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7726 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7727 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7729 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7731 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7733 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7734 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7735 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7737 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7738 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7741 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7742 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7743 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7745 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7746 command line option is disabled.
7748 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7749 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7751 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7753 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7755 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7756 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7758 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7760 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7761 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7762 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7763 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7764 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7765 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7767 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7768 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7771 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7772 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7774 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7775 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7777 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7778 received was valid base64.
7780 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7781 name of the variable that was being set.
7783 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7785 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7786 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7787 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7788 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7789 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7790 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7792 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7794 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7795 nor realm was specified.
7797 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7798 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7799 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7800 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7802 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7803 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7804 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7806 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7807 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7808 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7810 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7811 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7812 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7813 some systems use these upper case variants.
7815 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7816 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7817 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7818 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7820 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7822 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7823 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7825 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7826 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7829 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7831 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7832 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7833 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7834 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7836 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7839 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7840 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7841 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7843 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7844 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7846 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7847 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7848 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7849 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7851 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7852 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7853 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7855 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7857 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7858 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7859 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7860 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7863 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7864 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7865 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7867 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7869 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7870 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7872 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7873 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7875 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7876 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7877 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7878 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7879 when emails are that large.
7886 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7887 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7889 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7890 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7891 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7893 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7894 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7895 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7897 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7898 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7899 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7900 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7901 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7903 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7904 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7905 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7906 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7907 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7910 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7911 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7912 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7913 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7914 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7915 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7916 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7917 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7918 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7919 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7920 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7921 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7922 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7923 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7925 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7926 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7929 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7930 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7931 error should be diagnosed.
7933 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7934 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7935 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7936 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7937 appeared instead of "NULL".
7939 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7940 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7941 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7942 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7943 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7944 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7947 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7948 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7949 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7955 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7956 or receiver verification errors.
7958 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7961 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7962 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7963 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7964 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7966 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7967 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7968 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7969 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7970 shouldn't happen again.
7972 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7973 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7974 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7976 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7977 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7979 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7981 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7982 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7984 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7985 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7988 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7989 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7990 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7992 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7993 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7994 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7995 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7997 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7998 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7999 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8000 to define what should happen).
8002 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8003 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8004 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8006 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8008 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8010 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8011 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8013 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8014 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8015 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8016 structure in all cases.
8018 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8019 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8020 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8021 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8023 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8024 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8027 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8028 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8030 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8031 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8033 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8034 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8035 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8037 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8038 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8039 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8041 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8042 the book and for uniformity.
8044 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8046 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8047 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8048 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8049 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8050 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8051 non-existent command as the problem.
8053 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8054 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8055 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8057 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8059 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8060 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8061 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8063 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8064 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8065 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8066 timestamps using strftime().
8068 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8069 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8071 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8072 transport-time rewrites.
8074 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8075 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8076 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8077 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8079 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8080 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8082 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8083 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8084 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8085 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8088 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8089 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8090 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8091 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8092 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8093 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8094 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8096 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8097 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8098 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8099 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8100 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8102 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8103 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8104 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8105 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8106 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8107 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8108 remaining text gets split now.
8110 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8111 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8112 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8113 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8115 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8116 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8117 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8118 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8121 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8122 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8123 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8124 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8125 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8126 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8127 passed through if needed.
8129 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8130 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8131 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8132 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8133 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8134 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8136 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8137 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8138 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8139 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8140 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8142 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8143 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8144 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8145 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8146 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8148 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8149 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8152 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8153 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8154 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8155 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8156 mayhem of various kinds.
8158 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8159 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8160 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8161 the right test for positive values.
8163 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8164 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8165 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8166 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8167 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8168 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8169 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8170 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8171 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8172 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8175 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8178 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8179 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8182 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8183 the existing equality matching.
8185 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8186 dealing with inode numbers.
8188 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8189 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8190 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8192 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8193 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8194 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8195 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8198 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8199 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8200 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8201 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8202 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8203 relay addresses has also been removed.
8205 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8207 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8208 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8209 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8211 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8212 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8213 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8214 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8215 processing applies to CR:
8217 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8218 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8220 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8221 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8222 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8223 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8225 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8226 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8227 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8229 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8230 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8231 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8232 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8233 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8234 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8237 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8240 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8241 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8242 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8243 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8246 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8248 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8250 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8252 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8253 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8254 not considered personal.
8256 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8258 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8260 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8262 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8263 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8264 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8265 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8266 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8267 header lines, and spool format errors.
8269 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8270 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8271 for more flexibility.
8273 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8274 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8275 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8277 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8280 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8281 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8282 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8283 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8284 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8285 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8286 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8287 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8288 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8290 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8291 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8292 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8293 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8294 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8295 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8296 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8298 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8299 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8300 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8302 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8303 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8304 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8305 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8306 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8307 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8308 instead of killing the process with assert().
8310 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8311 than Unicode encoding.
8313 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8314 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8315 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8316 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8318 77. Added process_log_path.
8320 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8321 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8323 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8324 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8326 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8327 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8328 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8330 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8331 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8332 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8333 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8334 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8337 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8338 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8341 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8342 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8343 they will be used during message reception.
8349 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.