1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
32 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
33 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
34 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
36 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
38 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
39 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
42 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
43 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
44 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
46 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
48 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
50 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
51 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
52 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
54 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
55 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
56 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
58 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
59 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
61 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
62 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
65 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
66 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
67 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
68 should both provide the file and set the option.
69 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
71 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
72 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
74 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
75 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
76 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
77 Authentication-Results: header.
79 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
80 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
81 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
82 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
84 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
85 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
86 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
87 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
88 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
89 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
90 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
92 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
93 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
94 copies while it is still usable.
96 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
97 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
98 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
100 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
101 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
103 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
104 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
105 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
106 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
108 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
109 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
110 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
113 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
114 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
115 - the pipe transport command
116 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
117 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
119 - paths used by single-key lookups
120 Previously this was permitted.
122 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
123 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
124 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
125 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
127 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
128 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
129 support larger malloc requests.
131 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
132 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
133 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
134 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
136 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
137 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
138 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
139 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
142 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
143 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
144 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
145 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
146 data being length-specified.
148 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
149 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
150 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
151 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
153 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
154 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
155 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
156 not being properly tracked.
158 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
159 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
160 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
161 minute could be seen.
163 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
164 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
165 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
167 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
168 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
170 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
171 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
174 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
176 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
177 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
179 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
180 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
181 filesystem as sufficient validation.
183 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
184 argument is supplied.
186 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
187 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
188 access under Exim's current working directory.
190 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
191 Previously no event was raised.
193 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
194 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
195 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
198 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
199 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
200 the size of the signature hash.
202 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
203 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
205 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
206 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
207 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
208 dropped between messages.
210 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
211 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
212 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
213 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
215 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
216 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
217 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
218 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
219 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
220 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
221 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
222 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
223 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
225 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
226 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
227 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
229 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
230 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
237 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
238 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
240 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
241 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
244 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
247 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
249 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
251 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
252 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
254 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
255 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
256 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
257 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
258 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
259 suitably configured).
261 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
262 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
264 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
265 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
268 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
269 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
271 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
272 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
273 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
274 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
277 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
278 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
279 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
281 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
284 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
285 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
287 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
288 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
289 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
290 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
293 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
294 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
295 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
296 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
299 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
300 shared (NFS) environment.
302 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
303 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
306 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
307 on some platforms for bit 31.
309 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
310 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
311 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
312 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
313 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
314 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
315 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
316 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
318 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
320 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
321 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
323 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
324 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
327 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
328 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
331 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
332 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
333 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
336 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
337 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
338 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
340 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
341 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
342 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
343 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
344 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
346 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
349 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
350 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
351 be requested on all coneections.
353 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
354 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
356 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
358 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
359 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
360 one for these; the option was ignored.
362 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
363 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
364 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
365 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
367 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
368 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
369 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
372 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
373 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
374 error ignored was made.
376 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
378 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
379 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
380 values, to catch one form of exploit.
382 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
383 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
384 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
386 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
387 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
390 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
391 them in our smtp response.
393 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
394 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
395 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
396 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
397 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
399 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
400 link count into consideration.
402 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
403 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
405 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
406 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
407 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
410 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
412 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
414 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
416 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
417 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
418 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
419 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
421 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
423 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
424 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
427 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
428 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
429 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
431 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
432 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
433 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
435 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
436 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
437 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
438 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
439 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
440 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
441 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
442 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
444 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
445 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
446 resulted in an indefinite loop.
448 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
449 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
450 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
456 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
457 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
459 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
460 non-signal-safe functions being used.
462 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
463 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
464 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
466 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
467 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
468 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
470 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
471 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
472 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
473 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
474 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
477 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
478 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
480 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
481 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
482 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
483 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
484 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
485 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
486 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
488 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
489 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
491 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
494 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
495 Previously this would segfault.
497 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
500 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
501 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
502 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
503 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
504 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
505 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
507 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
509 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
510 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
511 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
512 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
514 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
516 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
517 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
518 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
519 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
521 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
523 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
525 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
526 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
527 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
529 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
530 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
531 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
533 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
535 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
536 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
537 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
538 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
540 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
541 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
542 promised '?' replacement.
544 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
546 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
547 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
548 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
549 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
550 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
552 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
553 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
554 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
556 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
557 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
558 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
560 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
561 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
562 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
564 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
565 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
566 hope that is portable enough.
568 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
569 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
570 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
571 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
573 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
574 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
575 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
577 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
578 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
579 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
580 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
582 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
583 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
585 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
586 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
587 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
588 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
590 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
591 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
592 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
594 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
595 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
596 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
597 the previous G, M, k.
599 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
600 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
603 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
604 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
605 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
606 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
608 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
609 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
611 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
612 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
613 off past the nul-terimation.
615 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
616 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
617 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
618 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
619 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
621 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
623 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
624 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
625 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
628 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
629 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
631 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
632 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
633 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
635 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
636 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
637 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
639 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
640 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
646 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
647 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
648 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
649 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
650 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
651 be defined in redis_servers.
653 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
654 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
656 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
657 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
658 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
659 extant use locations.
661 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
662 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
664 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
665 Previously only the last row was returned.
667 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
668 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
669 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
670 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
673 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
674 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
675 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
676 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
677 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
678 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
679 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
680 Main pool for expansions.
681 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
682 active in the testsuite.
683 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
685 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
686 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
687 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
688 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
691 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
692 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
695 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
696 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
697 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
699 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
700 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
701 ClamAV interface method is removed.
703 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
704 rows affected is given instead).
706 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
707 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
709 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
710 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
711 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
712 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
713 for all multi-message initiating connections.
715 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
716 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
717 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
719 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
720 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
721 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
722 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
725 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
726 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
727 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
730 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
732 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
733 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
735 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
736 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
737 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
739 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
740 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
741 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
744 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
745 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
747 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
748 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
749 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
751 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
752 for the build is renamed.
754 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
755 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
756 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
758 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
759 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
760 result replacing the original.
762 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
763 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
764 and the resources needed to be freed.
766 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
768 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
771 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
772 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
773 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
774 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
776 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
777 length value. Previously this would segfault.
779 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
780 newer versions of the scanner.
782 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
783 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
784 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
785 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
786 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
787 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
788 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
790 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
791 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
792 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
793 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
794 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
795 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
796 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
797 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
798 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
799 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
801 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
802 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
804 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
806 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
807 allows proper process termination in container environments.
809 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
810 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
812 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
813 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
814 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
816 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
817 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
818 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
819 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
821 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
822 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
825 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
826 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
828 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
829 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
830 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
831 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
832 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
834 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
835 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
838 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
839 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
841 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
844 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
845 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
846 "bare" representation.
848 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
849 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
850 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
851 corrupted the output.
857 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
858 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
859 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
860 pairs of long lines into single ones.
862 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
863 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
865 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
866 This permits better logging.
868 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
869 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
870 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
871 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
872 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
873 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
876 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
879 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
880 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
881 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
883 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
884 than 255 are no longer allowed.
886 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
887 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
888 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
889 client, there is no benefit for these.
890 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
891 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
892 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
895 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
896 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
898 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
899 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
900 erroneously found still-pending ones.
902 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
903 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
905 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
906 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
907 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
908 signature and again for transmission.
910 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
911 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
912 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
914 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
915 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
916 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
917 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
918 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
919 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
920 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
922 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
923 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
924 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
925 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
927 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
928 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
929 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
930 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
931 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
932 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
935 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
936 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
937 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
938 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
941 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
942 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
943 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
944 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
947 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
948 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
951 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
952 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
953 banner-time rejection.
955 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
958 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
959 is the name of a transport.
962 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
964 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
965 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
967 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
968 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
969 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
972 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
973 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
974 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
975 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
977 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
978 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
979 initial verify call returned a defer.
981 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
982 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
984 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
985 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
987 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
988 if present. Previously it was ignored.
990 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
991 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
993 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
994 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
997 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
998 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1000 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1001 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1002 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1004 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1005 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1006 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1007 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1009 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1010 and confused the parent.
1012 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1013 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1015 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1018 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1019 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1020 out-of-order delivery.
1022 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1023 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1024 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1027 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1028 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1031 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1032 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1033 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1035 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1036 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1037 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1038 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1039 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1040 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1042 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1043 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1044 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1046 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1047 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1048 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1050 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1051 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1052 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1053 though a different problem.
1059 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1060 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1062 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1064 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1065 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1067 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1068 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1070 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1071 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1072 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1073 before acknowledging the chunk.
1075 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1076 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1077 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1079 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1080 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1081 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1084 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1085 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1086 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1088 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1089 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1091 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1092 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1093 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1094 body hash calculated value.
1096 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1097 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1098 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1100 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1102 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1103 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1105 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1106 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1107 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1109 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1110 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1111 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1112 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1113 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1114 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1116 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1117 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1118 past that check, despite the cost.
1120 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1121 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1122 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1124 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1125 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1126 TLS library to consume.
1128 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1130 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1132 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1133 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1134 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1135 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1136 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1137 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1138 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1140 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1142 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1144 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1145 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1146 should be warning-free.
1148 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1150 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1151 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1153 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1154 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1155 general solution here.
1157 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1158 already-broken messages in the queue.
1160 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1162 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1168 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1169 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1171 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1172 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1173 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1175 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1176 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1177 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1178 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1179 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1180 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1181 if one fails this test.
1182 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1183 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1185 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1186 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1188 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1189 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1191 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1192 in rewrites and routers.
1194 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1195 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1197 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1198 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1200 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1202 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1205 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1206 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1207 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1208 connection after a verify cache hit.
1209 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1211 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1212 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1214 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1215 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1216 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1217 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1218 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1220 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1221 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1223 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1224 Previously they were not counted.
1226 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1227 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1228 that needed the lookup.
1230 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1231 distinguished as "(=".
1233 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1234 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1236 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1238 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1239 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1241 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1242 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1244 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1245 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1248 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1249 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1250 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1251 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1253 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1255 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1256 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1257 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1259 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1260 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1261 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1264 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1265 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1266 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1269 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1270 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1271 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1273 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1274 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1277 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1279 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1280 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1282 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1283 are not in the system include path.
1285 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1286 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1287 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1288 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1290 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1291 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1292 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1294 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1296 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1297 an incoming connection.
1299 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1302 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1303 fallback to "prime256v1".
1305 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1306 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1312 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1313 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1314 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1315 client dropping the TLS connection.
1317 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1318 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1320 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1321 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1322 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1323 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1326 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1327 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1328 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1329 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1330 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1331 check on the next write.
1333 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1334 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1335 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1336 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1337 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1339 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1340 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1342 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1343 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1344 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1346 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1347 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1348 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1349 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1351 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1352 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1354 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1355 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1357 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1358 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1359 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1362 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1364 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1366 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1368 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1369 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1371 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1372 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1374 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1376 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1377 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1379 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1381 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1382 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1384 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1386 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1387 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1388 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1389 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1390 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1391 they will retry in-clear.
1392 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1393 at installation time.
1395 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1396 with the $config_file variable.
1398 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1399 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1400 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1401 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1402 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1404 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1405 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1406 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1407 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1408 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1410 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1412 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1413 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1414 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1415 list order is no longer honoured.
1417 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1418 for DKIM processing.
1420 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1421 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1423 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1424 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1425 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1426 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1428 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1429 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1431 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1432 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1434 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1435 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1437 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1439 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1440 cached by the daemon.
1442 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1443 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1445 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1446 keys are given for lookup.
1448 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1449 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1450 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1451 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1453 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1454 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1455 server-side so match that on older versions.
1457 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1458 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1459 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1461 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1462 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1464 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1465 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1466 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1467 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1468 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1469 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1470 initial truncated version.
1472 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1474 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1476 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1477 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1479 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1481 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1483 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1484 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1487 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1488 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1491 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1492 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1494 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1495 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1498 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1499 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1500 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1502 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1503 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1504 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1505 extraction. Accept either.
1511 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1514 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1516 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1519 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1520 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1521 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1522 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1524 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1525 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1526 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1528 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1529 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1530 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1533 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1536 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1537 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1538 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1539 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1540 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1542 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1543 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1544 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1546 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1548 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1549 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1551 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1552 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1554 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1557 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1558 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1560 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1561 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1562 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1564 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1565 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1566 specify a port-range.
1568 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1569 timeout value per server.
1571 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1572 now have the list separator specified.
1574 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1577 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1580 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1582 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1583 rather than the verbs used.
1585 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1586 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1588 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1590 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1591 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1593 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1594 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1596 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1597 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1599 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1601 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1603 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1604 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1605 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1606 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1608 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1610 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1611 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1613 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1614 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1616 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1618 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1620 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1622 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1623 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1625 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1626 added for tls authenticator.
1628 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1634 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1635 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1636 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1637 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1638 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1639 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1640 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1642 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1643 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1644 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1645 function when detected.
1647 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1648 cause callback expansion.
1650 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1651 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1652 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1653 instead of bool when processing it.
1655 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1656 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1658 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1660 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1662 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1664 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1665 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1667 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1668 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1669 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1670 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1671 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1672 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1674 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1675 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1678 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1679 version 3.3.6 or later.
1681 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1682 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1683 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1684 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1685 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1686 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1689 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1690 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1692 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1693 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1694 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1697 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1698 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1699 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1701 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1702 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1704 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1705 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1708 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1710 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1711 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1713 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1714 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1717 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1719 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1722 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1723 output list separator was used.
1728 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1729 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1732 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1733 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1735 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1737 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1738 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1744 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1746 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1747 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1748 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1749 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1750 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1751 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1753 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1754 utilities have not been installed.
1756 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1757 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1759 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1760 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1762 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1763 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1764 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1765 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1767 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1769 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1770 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1772 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1775 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1777 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1778 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1779 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1781 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1782 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1783 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1784 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1785 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1786 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1788 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1790 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1791 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1793 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1796 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1798 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1800 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1801 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1803 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1804 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1806 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1808 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1810 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1811 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1813 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1814 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1815 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1817 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1818 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1819 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1822 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1824 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1825 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1828 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1829 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1832 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1833 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1835 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1836 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1838 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1840 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1841 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1842 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1844 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1845 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1847 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1848 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1851 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1852 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1853 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1855 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1857 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1858 Christian Aistleitner.
1860 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1862 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1863 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1865 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1866 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1868 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1869 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1871 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1872 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1874 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1875 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1877 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1878 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1879 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1881 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1883 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1884 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1887 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1889 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1890 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1897 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1899 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1900 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1902 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1905 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1906 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1909 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1911 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1912 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1913 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1914 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1915 using channel bindings instead).
1917 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1918 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1919 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1920 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1921 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1924 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1926 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1928 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1929 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1931 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1932 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1933 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1935 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1937 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1939 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1940 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1942 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1944 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1946 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1948 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1949 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1951 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1953 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1954 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1957 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1958 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1960 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1961 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1964 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1966 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1968 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1969 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1971 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1974 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1975 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1977 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1978 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1980 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1982 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1984 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1987 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1990 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1992 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1993 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1994 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1995 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1997 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1999 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2000 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2001 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2002 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2005 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2006 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2007 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2009 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2010 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2011 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2012 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2014 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2015 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2016 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2017 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2018 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2019 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2020 delivery, as in LMTP.
2022 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2023 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2025 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2027 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2031 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2032 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2033 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2034 username as equal to the username.
2036 This change corrects that bug.
2038 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2039 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2040 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2042 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2044 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2045 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2046 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2047 NULL dereference and crash.
2049 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2051 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2052 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2053 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2055 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2057 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2058 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2059 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2060 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2061 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2062 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2063 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2064 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2065 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2066 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2067 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2069 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2070 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2072 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2073 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2076 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2077 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2078 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2079 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2080 an empty string is now equivalent.
2082 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2083 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2084 not performing validation itself.
2086 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2087 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2089 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2092 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2094 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2095 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2096 other false fix of the same issue.
2097 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2100 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2101 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2103 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2104 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2105 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2107 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2108 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2109 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2111 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2113 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2115 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2116 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2118 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2121 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2122 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2123 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2124 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2125 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2127 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2128 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2130 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2131 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2134 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2135 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2136 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2137 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2139 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2141 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2142 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2143 from multiple comments on this bug.
2145 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2147 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2148 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2151 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2152 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2154 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2155 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2161 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2163 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2169 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2170 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2171 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2173 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2175 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2178 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2180 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2182 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2184 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2185 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2187 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2188 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2190 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2191 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2193 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2194 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2195 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2197 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2199 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2200 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2202 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2204 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2206 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2207 non-compliant senders.
2208 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2210 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2211 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2212 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2214 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2215 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2216 in spool file corruption.
2218 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2219 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2220 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2223 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2224 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2225 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2227 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2228 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2230 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2232 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2234 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2236 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2237 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2238 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2240 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2241 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2242 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2243 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2245 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2246 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2248 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2249 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2250 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2251 resolver implementation change.
2253 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2254 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2256 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2258 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2260 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2261 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2263 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2264 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2266 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2267 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2269 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2270 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2271 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2272 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2273 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2275 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2277 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2278 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2279 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2281 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2283 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2284 read-only, out of scope).
2285 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2287 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2288 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2289 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2290 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2292 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2294 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2295 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2296 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2297 real issues in debug logging.
2299 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2300 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2302 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2303 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2304 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2306 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2307 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2308 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2311 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2312 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2314 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2315 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2316 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2317 needs to override this, it can.
2319 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2320 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2321 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2323 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2324 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2325 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2326 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2328 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2334 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2335 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2337 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2339 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2342 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2343 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2345 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2346 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2347 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2349 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2350 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2351 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2352 not safe for signals.
2354 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2355 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2356 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2357 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2360 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2362 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2363 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2364 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2365 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2366 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2368 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2369 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2370 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2371 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2372 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2373 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2375 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2376 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2377 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2378 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2380 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2381 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2382 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2383 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2385 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2386 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2387 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2388 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2389 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2390 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2391 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2392 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2393 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2395 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2396 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2397 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2398 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2400 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2401 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2402 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2403 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2404 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2405 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2406 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2407 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2408 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2409 details in the main documentation.
2411 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2413 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2415 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2416 repository when doing development or release builds.
2418 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2419 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2421 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2422 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2425 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2427 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2428 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2430 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2431 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2433 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2434 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2436 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2437 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2439 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2440 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2442 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2444 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2447 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2448 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2449 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2451 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2453 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2455 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2456 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2462 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2464 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2465 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2467 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2469 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2471 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2474 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2475 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2477 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2478 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2480 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2481 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2483 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2486 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2487 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2489 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2490 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2491 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2492 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2494 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2495 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2501 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2504 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2505 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2506 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2508 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2509 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2511 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2512 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2513 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2515 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2516 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2518 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2519 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2521 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2522 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2524 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2525 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2527 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2528 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2530 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2533 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2534 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2536 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2537 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2539 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2540 SQL string expansion failure details.
2541 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2543 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2544 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2546 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2547 extern declarations in function scope.
2548 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2550 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2551 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2552 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2555 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2556 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2558 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2559 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2561 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2562 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2564 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2565 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2567 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2568 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2571 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2573 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2575 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2576 Patch by Simon Arlott
2578 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2579 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2585 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2586 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2588 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2589 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2591 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2593 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2594 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2595 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2597 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2598 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2599 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2601 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2602 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2603 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2604 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2606 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2607 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2608 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2609 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2611 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2612 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2613 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2616 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2619 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2620 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2621 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2622 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2623 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2629 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2630 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2631 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2633 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2634 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2636 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2638 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2640 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2642 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2644 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2646 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2647 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2648 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2649 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2651 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2652 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2653 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2654 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2655 more caution in buffer sizes.
2657 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2659 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2661 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2663 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2665 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2667 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2669 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2671 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2672 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2673 ignore trailing whitespace.
2675 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2677 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2680 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2681 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2683 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2684 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2685 Notification from John Horne.
2687 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2690 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2691 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2694 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2697 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2698 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2699 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2701 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2702 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2703 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2706 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2707 option (effectively making it always true).
2709 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2710 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2712 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2713 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2715 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2716 run-time user, instead of root.
2718 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2719 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2721 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2722 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2725 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2726 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2727 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2729 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2731 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2737 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2738 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2741 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2742 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2745 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2746 Patch from Alain Williams
2748 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2750 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2751 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2753 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2754 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2756 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2758 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2760 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2761 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2763 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2765 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2767 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2768 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2769 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2771 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2772 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2774 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2775 Patch by Simon Arlott
2777 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2778 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2784 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2786 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2788 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2790 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2792 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2798 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2799 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2801 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2802 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2805 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2806 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2807 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2809 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2810 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2812 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2813 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2814 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2815 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2817 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2818 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2819 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2821 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2823 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2825 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2826 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2828 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2830 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2831 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2832 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2833 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2835 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2836 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2838 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2840 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2842 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2843 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2845 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2846 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2848 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2849 that they are available at delivery time.
2851 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2853 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2854 incoming_port log selectors.
2856 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2857 setting expands to an empty string.
2859 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2860 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2862 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2863 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2865 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2866 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2868 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2869 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2871 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2872 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2874 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2875 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2877 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2879 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2880 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2882 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2883 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2885 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2887 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2888 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2890 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2892 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2894 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2897 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2898 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2900 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2901 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2903 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2904 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2906 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2907 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2909 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2910 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2912 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2913 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2915 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2916 plus update to original patch.
2918 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2920 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2921 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2923 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2925 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2927 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2929 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2931 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2932 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2934 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2935 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2937 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2938 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2940 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2941 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2943 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2945 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2947 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2949 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2955 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2956 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2957 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2959 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2960 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2961 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2962 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2963 build errors in sieve.c.
2965 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2966 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2967 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2969 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2971 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2973 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2975 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2981 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2983 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2984 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2985 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2986 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2987 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2988 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2989 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2990 for iplsearch lookups.
2992 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2993 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2994 previously such lookups could never work.
2996 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2997 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2998 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3000 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3003 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3004 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3005 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3006 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3007 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3008 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3010 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3011 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3013 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3014 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3015 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3016 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3017 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3018 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3020 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3023 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3025 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3026 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3029 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3030 by clients under certain conditions.
3032 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3033 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3035 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3037 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3038 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3040 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3042 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3044 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3046 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3047 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3049 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3051 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3052 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3054 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3056 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3058 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3059 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3060 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3061 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3063 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3064 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3065 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3067 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3068 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3070 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3072 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3074 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3076 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3077 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3078 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3084 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3085 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3088 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3089 issue a MAIL command.
3091 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3093 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3095 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3096 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3097 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3098 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3099 item. This has been fixed.
3101 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3102 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3104 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3105 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3107 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3108 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3109 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3111 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3113 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3114 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3115 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3116 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3117 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3119 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3120 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3121 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3123 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3124 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3125 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3126 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3128 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3130 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3132 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3133 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3134 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3135 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3136 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3138 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3140 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3141 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3142 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3145 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3147 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3149 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3151 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3153 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3155 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3156 no_callout_flush is set.
3158 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3159 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3160 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3163 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3165 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3166 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3167 other ACL rejections are.
3169 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3170 with slight modification.
3172 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3173 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3175 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3176 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3179 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3180 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3182 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3184 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3185 expansion side effects.
3187 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3188 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3189 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3192 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3193 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3194 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3196 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3197 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3198 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3199 were accidentally chopped off.
3201 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3202 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3203 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3204 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3205 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3206 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3207 pipelining has not been advertised.
3209 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3211 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3212 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3213 This has been fixed.
3215 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3216 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3217 reported on Solaris.
3219 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3220 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3221 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3222 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3223 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3224 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3225 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3227 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3230 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3232 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3234 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3235 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3236 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3237 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3238 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3239 criteria to be more general.
3241 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3242 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3243 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3244 host_all_ignored option.
3246 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3247 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3248 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3249 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3250 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3251 is what is supposed to happen).
3253 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3254 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3255 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3256 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3257 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3260 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3261 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3262 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3263 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3264 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3265 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3268 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3270 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3271 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3273 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3274 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3276 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3278 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3280 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3281 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3282 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3283 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3284 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3285 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3286 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3287 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3288 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3289 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3290 least in a lot of common cases.
3292 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3293 advertised in response to EHLO.
3299 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3300 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3302 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3303 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3305 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3306 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3307 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3309 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3310 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3311 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3312 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3313 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3319 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3320 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3323 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3324 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3325 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3327 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3328 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3329 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3330 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3331 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3332 rather than extend the field.
3338 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3339 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3340 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3341 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3344 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3345 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3346 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3348 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3349 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3350 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3352 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3353 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3354 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3357 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3358 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3359 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3360 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3361 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3362 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3363 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3364 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3365 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3366 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3367 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3369 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3372 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3373 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3374 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3375 ignores EPIPE as well.
3377 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3378 (quoted-printable decoding).
3380 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3381 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3383 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3385 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3387 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3389 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3390 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3392 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3395 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3396 miscellaneous code fixes
3398 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3401 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3402 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3403 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3404 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3405 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3406 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3407 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3408 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3410 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3411 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3412 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3413 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3415 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3416 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3417 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3418 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3419 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3420 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3421 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3422 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3423 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3425 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3428 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3429 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3430 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3431 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3432 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3433 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3434 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3435 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3437 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3438 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3441 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3442 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3443 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3444 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3445 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3446 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3447 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3448 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3449 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3450 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3451 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3452 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3453 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3455 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3456 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3457 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3458 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3459 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3460 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3461 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3463 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3464 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3465 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3466 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3467 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3468 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3469 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3470 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3471 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3472 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3474 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3475 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3476 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3477 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3478 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3480 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3481 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3482 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3483 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3484 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3485 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3486 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3488 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3489 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3490 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3491 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3492 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3493 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3496 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3497 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3498 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3501 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3502 if any retry times were supplied.
3504 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3505 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3506 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3508 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3510 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3512 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3513 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3514 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3515 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3516 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3517 before) are ignored.
3519 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3520 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3522 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3523 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3524 committing the later change.]
3526 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3527 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3528 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3529 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3530 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3531 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3532 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3533 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3534 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3536 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3537 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3538 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3539 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3540 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3541 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3542 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3543 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3544 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3546 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3547 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3548 hammering the server.
3550 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3551 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3553 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3555 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3556 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3557 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3559 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3560 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3561 one case where this was not true.
3563 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3564 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3565 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3566 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3569 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3570 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3571 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3572 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3573 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3574 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3575 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3576 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3577 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3580 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3581 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3582 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3583 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3585 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3586 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3588 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3589 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3590 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3592 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3594 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3596 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3598 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3599 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3600 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3601 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3603 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3604 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3606 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3607 be meaningful with "accept".
3609 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3610 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3612 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3613 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3614 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3616 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3617 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3618 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3619 there is data to show.
3620 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3622 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3623 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3624 as well as the number of messages.
3626 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3627 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3628 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3630 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3631 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3632 have a flag are now skipped.
3634 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3635 Added the -emptyok flag.
3637 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3638 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3640 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3641 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3642 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3644 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3647 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3648 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3650 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3652 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3653 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3655 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3657 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3658 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3659 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3660 contravention of the specifications.
3662 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3663 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3664 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3666 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3667 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3668 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3670 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3672 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3673 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3674 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3675 some point in the past.
3677 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3678 transport during callout processing was broken.
3680 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3681 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3683 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3684 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3686 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3687 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3689 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3695 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3696 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3698 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3699 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3700 there is data to show.
3701 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3703 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3704 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3706 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3707 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3709 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3710 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3712 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3713 submissions from trusted users.
3715 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3716 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3718 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3719 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3720 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3721 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3722 there is now a framework to start from.
3724 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3725 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3726 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3728 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3730 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3732 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3734 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3735 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3736 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3738 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3741 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3742 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3743 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3745 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3746 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3747 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3750 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3751 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3752 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3753 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3754 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3756 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3757 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3759 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3761 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3762 operations in malware.c.
3764 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3767 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3768 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3769 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3772 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3773 statements to "add_header".
3775 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3776 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3778 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3779 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3782 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3786 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3787 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3788 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3791 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3792 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3794 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3795 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3797 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3798 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3799 any possible encoding problems.
3801 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3802 but not after initializing Perl.
3804 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3805 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3806 apparently, which is not desirable.
3808 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3811 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3814 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3816 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3817 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3818 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3819 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3821 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3822 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3823 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3825 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3826 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3827 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3830 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3831 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3832 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3833 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3834 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3840 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3841 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3843 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3846 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3847 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3848 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3849 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3850 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3851 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3852 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3853 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3856 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3858 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3859 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3860 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3862 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3863 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3864 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3867 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3868 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3870 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3871 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3872 option (which defaults to 0600).
3874 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3876 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3877 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3878 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3879 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3880 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3881 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3882 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3884 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3890 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3891 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3892 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3893 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3894 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3895 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3898 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3899 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3901 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3903 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3904 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3905 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3906 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3907 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3910 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3911 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3913 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3914 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3915 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3916 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3917 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3919 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3920 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3921 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3922 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3924 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3925 be the same on different OS.
3927 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3930 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3931 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3933 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3936 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3937 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3938 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3939 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3940 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3941 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3944 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3945 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3946 when Exim was called.
3948 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3949 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3951 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3952 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3953 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3954 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3956 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3957 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3958 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3959 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3962 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3963 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3964 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3966 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3967 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3968 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3970 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3973 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3974 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3975 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3976 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3977 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3978 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3979 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3980 values from the SRV records were lost.
3982 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3983 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3984 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3986 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3987 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3988 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3990 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3991 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3992 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3993 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3994 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3995 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3996 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3997 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3998 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3999 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4001 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4002 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4003 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4005 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4006 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4008 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4009 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4010 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4011 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4014 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4015 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4016 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4018 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4019 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4020 PH/23 above applies.
4022 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4023 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4024 (for which there is an explicit test).
4026 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4028 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4029 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4030 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4031 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4032 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4034 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4035 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4036 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4037 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4039 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4040 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4041 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4043 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4045 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4047 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4048 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4049 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4051 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4052 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4053 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4054 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4055 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4057 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4058 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4059 the message gets confusing).
4061 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4062 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4063 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4064 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4066 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4067 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4068 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4069 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4072 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4073 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4074 the different processes.
4076 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4078 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4080 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4081 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4083 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4084 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4086 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4087 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4088 messages matching specified criteria.
4090 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4092 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4093 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4095 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4096 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4097 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4098 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4099 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4100 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4101 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4102 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4103 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4104 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4106 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4107 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4108 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4110 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4112 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4113 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4114 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4115 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4116 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4117 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4118 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4121 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4122 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4124 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4126 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4128 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4130 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4131 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4132 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4133 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4134 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4135 size of the count of files.
4137 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4139 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4142 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4143 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4144 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4145 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4147 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4148 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4149 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4151 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4152 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4153 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4154 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4155 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4157 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4158 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4160 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4161 will now be deprecated.
4163 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4165 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4166 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4167 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4169 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4170 with very large, slow to parse queues
4172 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4174 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4176 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4177 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4178 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4181 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4182 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4183 Sieve code now uses this.
4185 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4186 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4188 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4189 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4191 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4193 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4194 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4195 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4196 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4197 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4199 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4200 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4201 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4202 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4204 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4206 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4208 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4209 is preferred over IPv4.
4211 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4212 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4213 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4214 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4215 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4216 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4217 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4219 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4220 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4221 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4223 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4225 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4226 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4227 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4228 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4229 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4230 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4231 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4232 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4233 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4234 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4235 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4237 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4238 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4239 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4245 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4247 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4248 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4250 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4251 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4252 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4254 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4256 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4259 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4262 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4263 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4264 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4267 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4268 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4270 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4271 inside the third argument.
4273 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4274 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4277 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4278 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4280 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4281 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4283 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4285 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4286 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4289 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4291 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4292 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4293 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4294 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4295 identical. For example:
4297 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4299 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4300 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4301 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4303 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4304 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4305 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4306 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4308 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4309 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4310 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4313 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4315 o fixes some comments
4316 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4317 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4318 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4319 and documents the missing references header update
4323 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4324 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4327 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4328 Electronic Mail") by including:
4330 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4332 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4333 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4334 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4335 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4336 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4338 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4340 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4342 The auto-replied keyword:
4344 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4345 message by an automatic process,
4347 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4349 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4350 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4352 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4353 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4356 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4357 to the default Received: header definition.
4359 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4361 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4362 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4363 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4365 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4366 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4367 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4369 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4370 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4371 and treats the condition as false.
4373 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4375 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4376 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4377 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4378 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4379 not changing the active code.
4381 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4382 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4384 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4385 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4387 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4390 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4391 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4392 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4393 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4394 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4395 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4396 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4397 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4398 the text comparison.
4400 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4401 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4402 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4403 The same fix has been applied.
4409 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4410 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4413 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4414 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4416 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4418 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4419 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4420 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4421 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4422 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4424 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4425 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4426 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4427 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4430 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4438 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4439 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4441 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4443 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4445 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4446 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4447 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4449 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4450 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4451 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4453 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4454 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4457 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4458 ${stat: expansion item.
4460 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4461 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4463 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4464 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4467 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4469 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4472 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4473 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4475 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4477 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4478 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4479 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4480 the end of the subprocess.
4482 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4483 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4484 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4485 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4486 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4488 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4490 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4492 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4493 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4495 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4497 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4499 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4500 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4503 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4505 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4506 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4507 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4509 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4510 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4512 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4513 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4515 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4516 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4518 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4519 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4521 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4522 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4523 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4524 contributed by a Radius user.
4526 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4527 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4529 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4530 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4532 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4535 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4536 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4539 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4540 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4541 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4542 header lines when this was not necessary.
4544 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4546 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4547 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4548 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4551 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4554 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4555 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4556 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4557 return code was incorrect.
4559 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4561 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4563 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4565 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4567 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4568 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4569 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4570 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4571 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4574 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4576 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4577 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4578 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4579 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4580 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4581 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4582 which is clearly wrong.
4584 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4586 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4587 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4588 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4591 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4592 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4594 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4596 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4597 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4599 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4600 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4602 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4603 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4605 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4606 recipients, not senders.
4608 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4609 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4611 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4613 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4615 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4616 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4617 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4618 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4620 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4622 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4623 clock is set back in time.
4625 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4626 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4628 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4629 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4631 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4632 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4635 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4636 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4639 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4642 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4644 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4645 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4646 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4648 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4649 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4650 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4651 helo verification defer as a failure.
4653 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4654 actual error message.
4660 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4662 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4663 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4664 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4665 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4667 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4669 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4670 can still be requested.
4672 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4673 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4674 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4675 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4677 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4678 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4679 circumstances, but probably never did.
4681 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4682 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4683 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4686 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4688 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4689 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4691 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4693 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4695 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4696 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4697 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4698 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4699 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4700 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4702 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4703 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4704 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4705 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4706 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4707 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4709 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4710 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4712 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4713 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4715 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4716 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4718 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4720 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4722 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4724 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4726 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4728 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4730 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4732 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4733 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4734 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4736 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4737 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4738 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4739 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4741 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4742 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4743 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4745 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4746 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4747 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4748 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4750 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4751 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4754 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4755 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4756 should work with maildirs and everything.
4758 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4759 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4761 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4764 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4765 function for BDB 4.3.
4767 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4769 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4770 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4773 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4774 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4775 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4776 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4777 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4778 formatting function string_vformat().
4780 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4781 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4782 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4783 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4784 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4785 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4786 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4787 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4789 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4790 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4793 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4794 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4796 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4797 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4798 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4799 test. It is now used for both.
4801 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4802 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4803 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4804 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4805 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4806 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4808 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4809 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4810 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4813 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4814 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4815 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4817 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4818 experimental DomainKeys support:
4820 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4821 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4822 the control was given.
4824 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4826 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4828 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4830 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4831 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4832 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4835 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4836 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4837 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4838 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4839 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4840 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4843 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4844 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4845 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4846 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4847 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4848 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4850 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4851 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4852 do -d+all out of habit.
4854 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4855 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4858 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4859 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4860 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4861 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4862 record types that Exim uses.
4864 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4865 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4866 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4867 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4868 non-existent file that was broken.
4870 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4871 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4873 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4874 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4875 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4877 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4879 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4880 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4881 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4882 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4883 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4886 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4887 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4888 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4889 at a slight CPU cost.
4891 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4892 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4894 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4897 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4899 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4900 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4906 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4907 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4909 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4911 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4913 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4914 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4916 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4917 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4918 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4919 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4920 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4921 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4924 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4925 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4926 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4927 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4930 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4931 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4932 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4933 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4934 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4935 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4936 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4939 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4940 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4942 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4943 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4944 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4945 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4946 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4947 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4949 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4950 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4951 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4952 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4954 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4957 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4958 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4960 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4961 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4962 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4963 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4966 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4968 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4969 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4971 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4972 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4973 to what was transported.)
4975 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4977 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4978 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4979 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4980 spamd_address settings.
4982 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4983 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4984 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4985 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4986 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4988 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4990 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4991 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4992 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4993 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4994 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4996 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4997 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4999 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5000 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5001 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5002 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5003 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5004 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5005 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5008 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5009 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5010 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5011 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5012 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5013 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5014 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5017 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5019 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5020 driver and ACL definitions.
5022 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5023 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5025 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5026 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5027 understands it better than I do:
5029 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5030 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5032 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5033 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5034 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5035 => three warnings about OTP not working
5036 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5038 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5039 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5040 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5041 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5043 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5044 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5046 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5047 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5048 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5050 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5051 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5054 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5055 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5058 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5059 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5060 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5062 warn !verify = sender
5063 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5065 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5066 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5068 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5070 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5071 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5073 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5074 nomenclature these days.)
5076 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5077 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5079 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5080 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5081 . First host does not offer TLS;
5082 . First host accepts first address;
5083 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5084 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5085 . Second host accepts second address.
5086 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5087 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5090 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5091 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5092 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5093 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5094 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5096 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5097 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5099 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5100 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5102 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5103 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5104 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5106 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5107 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5110 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5112 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5113 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5114 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5115 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5116 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5117 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5118 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5120 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5121 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5122 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5123 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5124 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5126 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5127 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5130 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5131 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5132 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5133 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5134 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5135 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5137 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5139 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5140 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5141 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5142 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5143 printable escape sequences.
5145 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5146 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5149 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5150 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5153 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5154 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5155 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5156 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5157 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5159 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5160 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5161 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5163 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5165 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5166 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5169 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5170 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5171 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5172 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5173 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5174 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5175 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5176 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5177 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5180 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5181 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5182 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5183 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5187 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5188 ----------------------------------------
5190 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5191 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5192 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5193 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5194 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5195 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5198 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5199 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5200 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5201 historical information.
5207 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5209 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5210 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5212 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5213 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5216 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5217 filter fails to execute.
5219 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5220 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5221 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5222 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5223 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5225 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5227 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5228 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5229 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5230 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5232 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5233 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5234 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5235 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5236 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5238 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5240 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5242 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5243 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5244 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5245 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5247 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5248 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5249 sender verification.
5251 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5252 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5254 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5256 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5259 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5260 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5262 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5263 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5265 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5266 information about exactly what failed.
5268 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5270 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5271 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5272 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5274 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5275 It is now set to "smtps".
5277 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5278 ignore_target_hosts.
5280 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5281 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5282 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5283 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5286 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5287 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5288 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5290 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5291 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5292 wake it up if nothing else does.
5294 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5295 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5296 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5299 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5300 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5302 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5304 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5305 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5306 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5307 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5308 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5309 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5310 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5311 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5313 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5314 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5315 than one IP address.
5317 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5318 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5319 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5320 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5322 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5323 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5324 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5325 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5326 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5329 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5330 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5331 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5332 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5334 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5335 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5338 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5339 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5340 $sender_host_address.
5342 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5343 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5344 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5345 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5346 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5349 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5351 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5352 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5354 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5355 just the host names, not the priorities.
5357 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5358 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5359 controlled by a keyword.
5361 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5362 multiple records are returned.
5364 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5365 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5368 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5370 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5371 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5373 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5374 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5375 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5377 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5379 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5381 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5383 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5384 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5385 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5386 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5387 because the tests only now provoked it.
5389 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5390 (this can affect the format of dates).
5392 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5393 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5394 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5395 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5397 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5399 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5400 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5401 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5402 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5404 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5405 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5406 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5408 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5411 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5412 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5413 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5414 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5415 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5416 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5419 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5420 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5421 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5424 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5425 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5426 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5428 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5429 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5430 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5431 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5432 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5433 so I produce this patch..."
5435 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5436 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5439 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5440 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5441 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5442 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5445 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5447 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5448 long debug lines gets shown.
5450 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5451 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5453 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5455 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5456 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5457 of $primary_hostname.
5459 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5460 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5461 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5462 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5463 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5464 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5465 by change 4.50/55 above.
5467 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5468 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5469 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5470 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5471 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5472 running as the user.
5475 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5476 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5477 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5480 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5481 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5483 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5484 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5485 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5486 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5487 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5489 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5490 This has been fixed.
5492 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5493 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5494 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5495 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5498 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5500 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5501 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5502 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5503 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5505 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5506 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5508 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5509 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5510 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5512 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5513 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5514 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5517 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5518 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5519 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5521 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5522 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5523 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5524 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5526 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5527 during host lookups.
5529 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5530 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5532 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5534 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5535 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5536 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5537 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5538 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5541 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5542 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5544 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5545 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5546 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5548 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5550 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5551 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5552 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5553 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5554 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5555 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5558 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5559 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5560 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5561 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5562 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5564 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5567 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5569 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5570 "vacation" handling.
5572 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5573 OS variants using glibc.
5575 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5578 ----------------------------------------------------
5579 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5580 ----------------------------------------------------
5586 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5587 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5590 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5591 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5594 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5595 filter fails to execute.
5597 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5598 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5599 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5600 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5601 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5603 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5604 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5605 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5606 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5608 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5609 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5610 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5611 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5612 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5614 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5616 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5617 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5618 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5619 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5621 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5622 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5623 sender verification.
5625 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5626 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5628 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5629 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5631 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5632 ignore_target_hosts.
5634 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5635 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5636 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5637 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5640 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5641 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5642 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5644 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5645 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5646 wake it up if nothing else does.
5648 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5649 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5650 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5653 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5654 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5656 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5658 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5659 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5662 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5663 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5666 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5667 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5668 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5669 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5670 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5673 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5674 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5677 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5678 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5679 $sender_host_address.
5681 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5683 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5684 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5685 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5687 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5690 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5691 (this can affect the format of dates).
5693 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5694 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5695 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5696 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5698 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5699 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5700 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5702 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5703 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5704 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5705 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5707 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5708 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5709 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5711 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5714 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5715 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5716 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5717 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5718 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5719 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5722 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5723 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5724 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5725 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5728 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5729 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5730 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5731 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5732 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5733 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5734 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5736 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5737 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5738 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5739 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5740 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5741 running as the user.
5744 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5745 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5746 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5749 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5750 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5751 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5752 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5753 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5755 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5756 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5757 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5758 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5761 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5762 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5763 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5764 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5765 because the tests only now provoked it.
5771 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5772 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5773 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5774 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5775 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5776 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5777 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5779 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5780 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5783 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5785 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5787 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5788 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5791 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5792 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5793 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5794 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5795 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5797 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5798 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5800 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5802 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5804 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5807 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5808 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5810 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5811 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5812 affecting debugging statements).
5814 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5816 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5817 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5818 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5819 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5820 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5821 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5822 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5823 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5824 after the received time, and all would be well.
5826 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5827 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5828 condition in an expansion string.
5830 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5832 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5833 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5834 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5835 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5836 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5837 job under whatever limits there are.
5839 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5841 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5844 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5845 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5846 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5847 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5850 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5851 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5852 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5853 binary data in such strings.
5855 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5857 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5858 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5859 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5860 failure, which is pointless.
5862 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5864 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5866 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5867 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5868 Sender: header lines.
5870 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5871 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5872 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5874 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5875 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5876 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5877 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5878 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5881 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5882 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5883 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5884 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5885 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5887 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5888 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5889 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5892 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5893 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5895 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5896 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5898 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5900 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5902 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5904 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5907 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5909 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5911 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5912 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5913 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5914 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5916 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5917 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5923 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5924 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5925 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5927 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5928 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5929 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5930 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5931 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5932 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5934 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5935 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5936 verification failure".
5938 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5939 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5940 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5941 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5943 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5944 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5945 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5946 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5947 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5948 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5949 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5950 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5951 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5952 treated as a timeout.
5954 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5955 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5956 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5957 not set for Exim filters).
5959 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5960 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5961 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5963 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5965 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5966 try to make them clearer.
5968 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5969 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5971 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5973 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5975 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5976 only the Cygwin environment.
5978 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5979 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5980 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5981 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5982 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5984 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5985 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5986 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5987 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5988 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5989 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5990 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5992 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5993 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5995 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5997 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5998 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5999 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6001 To: susanne@some.where
6003 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6004 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6005 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6006 of addresses in From: header lines).
6008 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6009 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6010 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6012 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6013 treated as non-personal.
6015 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6016 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6018 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6020 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6022 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6023 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6024 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6026 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6027 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6029 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6030 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6031 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6032 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6033 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6034 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6036 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6037 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6038 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6039 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6040 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6041 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6042 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6043 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6045 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6047 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6048 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6050 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6051 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6052 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6054 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6055 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6057 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6058 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6059 rather than long int.
6061 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6063 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6069 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6070 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6071 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6072 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6073 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6074 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6080 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6081 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6083 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6084 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6085 socklen_t is defined.
6087 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6090 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6093 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6094 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6095 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6096 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6097 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6099 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6100 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6101 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6102 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6104 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6105 of flapping under certain conditions.
6107 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6108 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6109 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6111 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6113 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6115 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6116 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6117 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6118 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6120 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6121 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6122 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6123 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6124 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6125 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6126 preserved with the message after it was received.
6128 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6129 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6130 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6131 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6132 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6133 test suite worked just fine.
6135 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6136 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6137 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6139 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6140 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6143 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6144 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6145 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6146 does not fully solve it.
6148 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6149 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6150 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6151 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6152 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6154 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6155 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6156 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6158 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6159 string, for example:
6161 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6163 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6164 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6165 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6166 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6167 the routers could not see them.
6169 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6170 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6172 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6173 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6176 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6177 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6178 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6179 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6180 that needed quoting.
6182 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6183 was not being matched caselessly.
6185 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6188 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6189 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6190 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6191 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6192 when use_sender is false.
6194 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6196 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6198 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6200 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6201 the configuration file.
6203 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6204 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6206 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6208 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6209 bytes in the message body.
6211 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6212 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6215 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6217 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6219 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6220 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6221 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6222 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6229 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6230 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6232 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6233 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6234 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6235 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6236 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6238 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6239 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6241 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6242 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6243 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6245 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6246 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6247 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6249 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6252 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6253 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6254 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6255 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6256 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6257 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6258 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6264 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6265 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6266 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6267 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6268 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6269 default (and expected) setting.
6271 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6272 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6273 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6274 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6276 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6277 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6279 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6282 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6283 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6284 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6285 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6286 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6287 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6289 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6290 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6291 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6293 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6294 part (NOT match_host).
6296 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6298 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6299 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6300 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6301 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6302 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6303 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6304 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6305 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6306 the same named file.
6308 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6309 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6312 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6313 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6314 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6315 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6318 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6319 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6320 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6322 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6324 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6326 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6328 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6329 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6331 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6332 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6333 before starting the TLS session.
6335 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6337 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6338 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6340 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6341 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6342 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6343 colon in the middle).
6349 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6350 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6351 multiple configurations are in use.
6353 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6354 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6355 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6356 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6357 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6358 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6360 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6361 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6363 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6364 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6365 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6367 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6368 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6371 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6372 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6374 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6376 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6377 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6379 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6387 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6388 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6389 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6390 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6391 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6393 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6396 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6397 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6398 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6399 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6400 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6401 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6403 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6404 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6405 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6406 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6407 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6408 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6409 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6412 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6413 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6414 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6415 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6416 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6418 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6420 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6421 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6422 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6424 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6426 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6427 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6428 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6431 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6432 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6434 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6435 Three changes have been made:
6437 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6438 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6439 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6440 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6441 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6443 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6446 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6447 the modified behaviour.
6453 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6456 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6457 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6459 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6460 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6461 try to track down a specific problem.
6463 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6464 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6465 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6467 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6470 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6471 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6472 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6473 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6474 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6475 some earlier ones do not.
6477 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6479 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6480 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6481 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6482 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6483 address literals are enabled, of course).
6485 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6487 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6488 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6489 by a command such as
6493 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6495 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6497 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6498 remained set. It is now erased.
6500 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6501 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6503 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6504 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6505 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6506 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6507 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6508 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6509 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6510 appropriate error code.
6512 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6513 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6514 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6515 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6516 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6517 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6519 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6520 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6521 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6523 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6524 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6525 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6526 terminate the header.
6528 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6529 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6530 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6532 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6533 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6534 (4.30/29). In particular:
6536 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6539 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6540 to write a maildirsize file.
6542 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6543 the transport, the new value overrides.
6545 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6548 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6549 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6550 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6553 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6554 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6555 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6558 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6559 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6560 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6562 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6563 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6566 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6567 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6568 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6570 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6572 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6574 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6576 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6577 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6580 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6581 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6582 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6583 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6584 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6585 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6586 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6589 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6590 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6591 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6592 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6593 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6596 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6597 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6598 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6599 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6600 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6601 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6602 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6603 cached value only when the same options are set.
6605 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6607 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6608 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6609 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6610 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6611 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6613 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6614 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6615 it is clearly obsolete.
6617 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6620 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6621 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6622 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6625 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6626 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6627 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6628 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6629 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6631 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6632 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6633 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6634 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6636 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6638 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6640 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6641 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6644 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6645 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6646 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6647 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6648 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6649 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6652 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6653 with the -f command-line option.
6655 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6656 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6657 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6658 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6659 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6660 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6662 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6663 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6666 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6667 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6668 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6669 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6670 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6671 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6672 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6673 buffer is too small.
6675 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6676 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6678 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6679 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6680 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6681 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6682 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6683 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6684 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6685 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6686 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6688 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6689 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6690 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6692 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6693 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6696 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6697 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6698 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6699 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6700 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6702 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6703 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6704 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6705 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6708 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6710 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6712 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6713 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6715 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6716 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6717 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6719 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6720 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6721 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6722 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6723 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6725 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6726 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6727 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6728 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6729 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6730 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6731 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6733 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6734 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6735 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6736 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6737 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6738 the test of how many are available.
6740 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6741 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6742 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6743 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6744 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6745 new message is started.
6747 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6748 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6750 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6751 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6753 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6754 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6755 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6758 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6759 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6760 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6761 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6762 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6763 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6764 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6766 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6767 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6768 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6769 interpreted as octal.
6771 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6774 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6775 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6776 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6777 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6778 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6779 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6781 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6782 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6783 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6784 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6786 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6787 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6788 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6789 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6791 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6792 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6795 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6796 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6798 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6800 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6801 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6802 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6803 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6805 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6806 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6807 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6808 supplied", which is not helpful.
6810 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6811 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6812 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6814 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6815 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6816 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6817 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6818 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6819 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6820 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6821 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6823 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6824 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6825 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6826 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6827 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6829 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6830 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6831 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6832 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6833 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6834 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6836 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6837 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6838 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6840 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6842 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6843 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6844 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6847 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6849 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6850 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6851 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6852 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6853 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6854 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6855 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6856 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6858 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6859 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6860 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6861 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6862 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6864 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6867 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6868 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6869 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6870 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6871 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6872 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6873 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6874 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6875 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6881 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6882 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6883 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6885 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6888 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6889 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6890 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6892 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6893 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6894 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6895 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6896 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6897 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6899 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6900 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6901 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6902 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6903 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6904 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6905 the Exim test suite.
6907 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6908 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6909 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6910 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6912 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6913 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6914 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6915 specify it in this variable.
6917 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6918 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6919 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6920 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6922 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6923 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6924 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6925 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6927 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6928 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6929 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6930 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6931 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6933 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6935 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6938 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6939 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6940 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6941 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6942 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6944 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6945 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6947 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6948 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6949 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6950 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6951 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6953 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6954 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6956 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6957 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6958 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6960 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6961 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6963 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6964 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6966 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6967 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6968 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6970 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6971 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6973 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6974 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6975 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6976 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6978 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6980 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6981 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6982 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6983 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6985 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6987 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6988 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6990 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6992 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6993 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6994 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6995 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6996 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6997 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6999 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7001 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7002 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7005 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7007 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7008 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7010 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7011 550 Sender verify failed
7013 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7014 the final line of the response.
7016 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7017 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7018 all other user lookups.
7020 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7023 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7024 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7025 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7026 result into an int without checking.
7028 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7029 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7030 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7032 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7033 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7034 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7035 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7037 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7040 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7041 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7043 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7044 to the empty sender.
7046 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7047 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7048 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7049 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7050 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7051 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7052 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7055 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7056 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7057 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7058 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7061 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7062 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7064 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7067 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7068 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7070 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7072 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7073 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7076 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7077 as soon as it is encountered.
7079 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7081 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7084 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7085 recognizes a tab character.
7087 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7088 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7089 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7090 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7092 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7094 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7097 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7099 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7101 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7102 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7105 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7106 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7107 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7108 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7109 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7111 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7112 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7114 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7115 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7116 list (.included file names were always shown).
7118 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7119 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7120 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7123 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7124 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7126 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7128 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7130 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7132 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7133 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7134 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7135 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7136 failures to open the logs.
7138 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7139 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7140 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7141 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7142 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7143 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7144 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7150 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7151 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7152 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7155 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7156 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7157 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7159 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7160 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7161 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7163 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7164 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7165 causing some misleading effects.
7167 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7168 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7169 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7171 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7172 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7173 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7174 queue-runner function directly.
7180 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7183 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7184 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7185 was always written to the default place.
7187 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7188 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7189 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7191 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7193 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7195 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7196 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7197 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7199 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7200 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7203 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7204 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7205 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7207 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7208 command line option is disabled.
7210 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7211 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7213 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7215 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7217 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7218 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7220 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7222 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7223 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7224 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7225 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7226 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7227 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7229 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7230 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7233 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7234 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7236 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7237 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7239 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7240 received was valid base64.
7242 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7243 name of the variable that was being set.
7245 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7247 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7248 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7249 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7250 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7251 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7252 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7254 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7256 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7257 nor realm was specified.
7259 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7260 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7261 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7262 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7264 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7265 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7266 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7268 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7269 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7270 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7272 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7273 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7274 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7275 some systems use these upper case variants.
7277 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7278 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7279 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7280 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7282 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7284 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7285 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7287 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7288 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7291 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7293 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7294 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7295 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7296 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7298 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7301 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7302 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7303 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7305 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7306 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7308 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7309 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7310 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7311 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7313 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7314 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7315 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7317 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7319 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7320 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7321 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7322 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7325 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7326 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7327 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7329 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7331 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7332 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7334 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7335 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7337 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7338 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7339 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7340 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7341 when emails are that large.
7348 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7349 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7351 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7352 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7353 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7355 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7356 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7357 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7359 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7360 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7361 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7362 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7363 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7365 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7366 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7367 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7368 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7369 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7372 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7373 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7374 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7375 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7376 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7377 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7378 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7379 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7380 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7381 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7382 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7383 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7384 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7385 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7387 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7388 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7391 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7392 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7393 error should be diagnosed.
7395 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7396 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7397 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7398 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7399 appeared instead of "NULL".
7401 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7402 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7403 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7404 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7405 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7406 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7409 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7410 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7411 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7417 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7418 or receiver verification errors.
7420 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7423 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7424 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7425 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7426 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7428 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7429 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7430 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7431 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7432 shouldn't happen again.
7434 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7435 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7436 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7438 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7439 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7441 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7443 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7444 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7446 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7447 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7450 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7451 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7452 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7454 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7455 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7456 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7457 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7459 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7460 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7461 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7462 to define what should happen).
7464 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7465 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7466 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7468 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7470 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7472 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7473 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7475 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7476 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7477 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7478 structure in all cases.
7480 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7481 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7482 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7483 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7485 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7486 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7489 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7490 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7492 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7493 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7495 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7496 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7497 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7499 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7500 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7501 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7503 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7504 the book and for uniformity.
7506 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7508 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7509 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7510 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7511 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7512 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7513 non-existent command as the problem.
7515 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7516 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7517 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7519 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7521 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7522 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7523 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7525 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7526 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7527 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7528 timestamps using strftime().
7530 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7531 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7533 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7534 transport-time rewrites.
7536 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7537 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7538 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7539 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7541 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7542 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7544 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7545 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7546 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7547 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7550 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7551 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7552 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7553 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7554 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7555 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7556 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7558 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7559 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7560 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7561 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7562 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7564 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7565 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7566 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7567 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7568 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7569 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7570 remaining text gets split now.
7572 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7573 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7574 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7575 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7577 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7578 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7579 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7580 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7583 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7584 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7585 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7586 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7587 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7588 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7589 passed through if needed.
7591 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7592 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7593 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7594 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7595 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7596 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7598 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7599 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7600 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7601 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7602 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7604 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7605 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7606 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7607 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7608 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7610 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7611 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7614 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7615 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7616 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7617 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7618 mayhem of various kinds.
7620 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7621 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7622 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7623 the right test for positive values.
7625 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7626 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7627 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7628 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7629 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7630 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7631 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7632 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7633 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7634 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7637 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7640 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7641 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7644 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7645 the existing equality matching.
7647 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7648 dealing with inode numbers.
7650 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7651 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7652 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7654 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7655 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7656 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7657 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7660 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7661 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7662 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7663 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7664 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7665 relay addresses has also been removed.
7667 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7669 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7670 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7671 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7673 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7674 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7675 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7676 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7677 processing applies to CR:
7679 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7680 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7682 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7683 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7684 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7685 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7687 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7688 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7689 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7691 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7692 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7693 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7694 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7695 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7696 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7699 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7702 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7703 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7704 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7705 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7708 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7710 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7712 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7714 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7715 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7716 not considered personal.
7718 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7720 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7722 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7724 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7725 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7726 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7727 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7728 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7729 header lines, and spool format errors.
7731 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7732 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7733 for more flexibility.
7735 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7736 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7737 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7739 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7742 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7743 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7744 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7745 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7746 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7747 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7748 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7749 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7750 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7752 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7753 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7754 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7755 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7756 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7757 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7758 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7760 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7761 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7762 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7764 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7765 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7766 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7767 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7768 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7769 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7770 instead of killing the process with assert().
7772 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7773 than Unicode encoding.
7775 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7776 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7777 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7778 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7780 77. Added process_log_path.
7782 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7783 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7785 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7786 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7788 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7789 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7790 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7792 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7793 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7794 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7795 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7796 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7799 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7800 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7803 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7804 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7805 they will be used during message reception.
7811 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.