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 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
10 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
11 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
13 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
15 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
16 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
19 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
20 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
21 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
23 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
25 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
27 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
28 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
29 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
31 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
32 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
33 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
35 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
36 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
38 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
39 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
42 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
43 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
44 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
45 should both provide the file and set the option.
46 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
48 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
49 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
51 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
52 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
53 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
54 Authentication-Results: header.
56 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
57 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
58 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
59 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
61 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
62 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
63 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
64 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
65 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
66 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
67 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
69 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
70 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
71 copies while it is still usable.
73 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
74 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
75 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
77 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
78 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
80 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
81 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
82 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
83 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
85 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
86 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
87 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
90 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
91 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
92 - the pipe transport command
93 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
94 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
96 - paths used by single-key lookups
97 Previously this was permitted.
99 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
100 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
101 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
102 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
104 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
105 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
106 support larger malloc requests.
108 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
109 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
110 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
111 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
113 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
114 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
115 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
116 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
119 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
120 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
121 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
122 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
123 data being length-specified.
125 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
126 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
127 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
128 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
130 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
131 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
132 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
133 not being properly tracked.
135 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
136 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
137 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
138 minute could be seen.
140 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
141 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
142 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
144 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
145 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
147 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
148 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
151 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
153 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
154 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
156 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
157 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
158 filesystem as sufficient validation.
160 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
161 argument is supplied.
163 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
164 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
165 access under Exim's current working directory.
167 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
168 Previously no event was raised.
174 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
175 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
177 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
178 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
181 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
184 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
186 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
188 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
189 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
191 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
192 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
193 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
194 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
195 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
196 suitably configured).
198 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
199 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
201 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
202 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
205 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
206 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
208 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
209 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
210 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
211 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
214 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
215 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
216 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
218 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
221 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
222 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
224 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
225 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
226 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
227 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
230 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
231 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
232 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
233 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
236 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
237 shared (NFS) environment.
239 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
240 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
243 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
244 on some platforms for bit 31.
246 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
247 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
248 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
249 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
250 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
251 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
252 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
253 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
255 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
257 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
258 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
260 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
261 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
264 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
265 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
268 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
269 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
270 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
273 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
274 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
275 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
277 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
278 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
279 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
280 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
281 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
283 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
286 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
287 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
288 be requested on all coneections.
290 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
291 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
293 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
295 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
296 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
297 one for these; the option was ignored.
299 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
300 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
301 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
302 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
304 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
305 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
306 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
309 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
310 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
311 error ignored was made.
313 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
315 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
316 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
317 values, to catch one form of exploit.
319 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
320 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
321 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
323 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
324 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
327 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
328 them in our smtp response.
330 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
331 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
332 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
333 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
334 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
336 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
337 link count into consideration.
339 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
340 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
342 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
343 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
344 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
347 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
349 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
351 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
353 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
354 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
355 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
356 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
358 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
360 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
361 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
364 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
365 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
366 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
368 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
369 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
370 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
372 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
373 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
374 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
375 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
376 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
377 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
378 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
379 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
381 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
382 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
383 resulted in an indefinite loop.
385 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
386 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
387 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
393 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
394 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
396 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
397 non-signal-safe functions being used.
399 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
400 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
401 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
403 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
404 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
405 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
407 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
408 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
409 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
410 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
411 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
414 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
415 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
417 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
418 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
419 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
420 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
421 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
422 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
423 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
425 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
426 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
428 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
431 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
432 Previously this would segfault.
434 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
437 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
438 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
439 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
440 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
441 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
442 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
444 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
446 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
447 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
448 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
449 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
451 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
453 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
454 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
455 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
456 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
458 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
460 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
462 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
463 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
464 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
466 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
467 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
468 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
470 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
472 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
473 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
474 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
475 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
477 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
478 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
479 promised '?' replacement.
481 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
483 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
484 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
485 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
486 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
487 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
489 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
490 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
491 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
493 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
494 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
495 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
497 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
498 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
499 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
501 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
502 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
503 hope that is portable enough.
505 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
506 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
507 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
508 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
510 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
511 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
512 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
514 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
515 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
516 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
517 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
519 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
520 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
522 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
523 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
524 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
525 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
527 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
528 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
529 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
531 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
532 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
533 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
534 the previous G, M, k.
536 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
537 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
540 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
541 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
542 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
543 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
545 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
546 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
548 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
549 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
550 off past the nul-terimation.
552 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
553 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
554 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
555 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
556 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
558 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
560 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
561 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
562 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
565 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
566 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
568 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
569 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
570 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
572 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
573 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
574 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
576 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
577 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
583 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
584 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
585 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
586 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
587 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
588 be defined in redis_servers.
590 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
591 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
593 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
594 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
595 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
596 extant use locations.
598 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
599 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
601 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
602 Previously only the last row was returned.
604 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
605 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
606 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
607 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
610 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
611 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
612 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
613 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
614 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
615 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
616 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
617 Main pool for expansions.
618 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
619 active in the testsuite.
620 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
622 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
623 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
624 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
625 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
628 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
629 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
632 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
633 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
634 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
636 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
637 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
638 ClamAV interface method is removed.
640 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
641 rows affected is given instead).
643 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
644 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
646 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
647 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
648 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
649 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
650 for all multi-message initiating connections.
652 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
653 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
654 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
656 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
657 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
658 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
659 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
662 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
663 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
664 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
667 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
669 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
670 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
672 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
673 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
674 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
676 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
677 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
678 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
681 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
682 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
684 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
685 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
686 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
688 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
689 for the build is renamed.
691 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
692 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
693 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
695 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
696 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
697 result replacing the original.
699 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
700 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
701 and the resources needed to be freed.
703 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
705 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
708 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
709 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
710 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
711 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
713 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
714 length value. Previously this would segfault.
716 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
717 newer versions of the scanner.
719 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
720 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
721 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
722 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
723 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
724 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
725 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
727 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
728 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
729 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
730 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
731 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
732 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
733 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
734 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
735 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
736 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
738 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
739 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
741 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
743 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
744 allows proper process termination in container environments.
746 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
747 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
749 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
750 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
751 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
753 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
754 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
755 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
756 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
758 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
759 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
762 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
763 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
765 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
766 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
767 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
768 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
769 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
771 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
772 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
775 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
776 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
778 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
781 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
782 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
783 "bare" representation.
785 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
786 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
787 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
788 corrupted the output.
794 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
795 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
796 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
797 pairs of long lines into single ones.
799 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
800 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
802 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
803 This permits better logging.
805 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
806 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
807 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
808 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
809 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
810 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
812 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
813 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
816 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
817 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
818 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
820 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
821 than 255 are no longer allowed.
823 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
824 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
825 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
826 client, there is no benefit for these.
827 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
828 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
829 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
832 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
833 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
835 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
836 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
837 erroneously found still-pending ones.
839 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
840 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
842 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
843 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
844 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
845 signature and again for transmission.
847 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
848 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
849 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
851 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
852 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
853 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
854 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
855 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
856 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
857 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
859 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
860 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
861 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
862 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
864 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
865 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
866 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
867 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
868 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
869 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
872 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
873 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
874 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
875 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
878 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
879 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
880 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
881 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
884 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
885 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
888 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
889 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
890 banner-time rejection.
892 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
895 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
896 is the name of a transport.
899 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
901 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
902 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
904 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
905 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
906 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
909 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
910 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
911 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
912 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
914 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
915 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
916 initial verify call returned a defer.
918 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
919 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
921 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
922 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
924 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
925 if present. Previously it was ignored.
927 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
928 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
930 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
931 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
934 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
935 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
937 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
938 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
939 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
941 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
942 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
943 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
944 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
946 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
947 and confused the parent.
949 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
950 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
952 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
955 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
956 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
957 out-of-order delivery.
959 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
960 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
961 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
964 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
965 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
968 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
969 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
970 one run was done. Bug 2189.
972 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
973 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
974 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
975 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
976 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
977 message is still "Temporary local problem".
979 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
980 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
981 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
983 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
984 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
985 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
987 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
988 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
989 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
990 though a different problem.
996 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
997 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
999 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1001 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1002 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1004 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1005 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1007 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1008 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1009 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1010 before acknowledging the chunk.
1012 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1013 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1014 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1016 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1017 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1018 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1021 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1022 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1023 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1025 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1026 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1028 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1029 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1030 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1031 body hash calculated value.
1033 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1034 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1035 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1037 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1039 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1040 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1042 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1043 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1044 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1046 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1047 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1048 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1049 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1050 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1051 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1053 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1054 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1055 past that check, despite the cost.
1057 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1058 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1059 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1061 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1062 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1063 TLS library to consume.
1065 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1067 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1069 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1070 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1071 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1072 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1073 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1074 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1075 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1077 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1079 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1081 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1082 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1083 should be warning-free.
1085 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1087 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1088 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1090 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1091 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1092 general solution here.
1094 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1095 already-broken messages in the queue.
1097 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1099 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1105 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1106 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1108 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1109 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1110 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1112 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1113 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1114 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1115 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1116 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1117 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1118 if one fails this test.
1119 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1120 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1122 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1123 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1125 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1126 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1128 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1129 in rewrites and routers.
1131 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1132 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1134 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1135 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1137 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1139 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1142 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1143 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1144 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1145 connection after a verify cache hit.
1146 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1148 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1149 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1151 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1152 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1153 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1154 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1155 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1157 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1158 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1160 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1161 Previously they were not counted.
1163 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1164 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1165 that needed the lookup.
1167 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1168 distinguished as "(=".
1170 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1171 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1173 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1175 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1176 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1178 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1179 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1181 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1182 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1185 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1186 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1187 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1188 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1190 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1192 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1193 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1194 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1196 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1197 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1198 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1201 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1202 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1203 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1206 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1207 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1208 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1210 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1211 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1214 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1216 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1217 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1219 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1220 are not in the system include path.
1222 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1223 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1224 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1225 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1227 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1228 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1229 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1231 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1233 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1234 an incoming connection.
1236 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1239 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1240 fallback to "prime256v1".
1242 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1243 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1249 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1250 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1251 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1252 client dropping the TLS connection.
1254 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1255 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1257 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1258 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1259 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1260 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1263 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1264 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1265 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1266 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1267 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1268 check on the next write.
1270 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1271 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1272 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1273 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1274 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1276 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1277 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1279 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1280 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1281 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1283 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1284 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1285 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1286 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1288 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1289 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1291 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1292 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1294 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1295 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1296 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1299 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1301 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1303 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1305 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1306 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1308 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1309 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1311 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1313 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1314 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1316 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1318 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1319 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1321 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1323 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1324 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1325 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1326 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1327 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1328 they will retry in-clear.
1329 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1330 at installation time.
1332 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1333 with the $config_file variable.
1335 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1336 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1337 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1338 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1339 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1341 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1342 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1343 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1344 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1345 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1347 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1349 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1350 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1351 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1352 list order is no longer honoured.
1354 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1355 for DKIM processing.
1357 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1358 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1360 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1361 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1362 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1363 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1365 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1366 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1368 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1369 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1371 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1372 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1374 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1376 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1377 cached by the daemon.
1379 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1380 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1382 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1383 keys are given for lookup.
1385 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1386 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1387 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1388 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1390 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1391 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1392 server-side so match that on older versions.
1394 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1395 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1396 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1398 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1399 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1401 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1402 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1403 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1404 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1405 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1406 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1407 initial truncated version.
1409 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1411 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1413 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1414 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1416 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1418 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1420 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1421 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1424 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1425 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1428 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1429 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1431 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1432 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1435 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1436 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1437 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1439 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1440 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1441 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1442 extraction. Accept either.
1448 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1451 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1453 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1456 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1457 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1458 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1459 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1461 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1462 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1463 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1465 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1466 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1467 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1470 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1473 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1474 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1475 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1476 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1477 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1479 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1480 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1481 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1483 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1485 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1486 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1488 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1489 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1491 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1494 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1495 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1497 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1498 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1499 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1501 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1502 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1503 specify a port-range.
1505 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1506 timeout value per server.
1508 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1509 now have the list separator specified.
1511 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1514 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1517 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1519 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1520 rather than the verbs used.
1522 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1523 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1525 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1527 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1528 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1530 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1531 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1533 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1534 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1536 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1538 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1540 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1541 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1542 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1543 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1545 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1547 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1548 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1550 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1551 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1553 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1555 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1557 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1559 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1560 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1562 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1563 added for tls authenticator.
1565 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1571 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1572 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1573 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1574 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1575 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1576 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1577 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1579 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1580 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1581 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1582 function when detected.
1584 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1585 cause callback expansion.
1587 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1588 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1589 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1590 instead of bool when processing it.
1592 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1593 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1595 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1597 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1599 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1601 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1602 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1604 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1605 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1606 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1607 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1608 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1609 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1611 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1612 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1615 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1616 version 3.3.6 or later.
1618 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1619 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1620 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1621 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1622 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1623 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1626 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1627 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1629 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1630 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1631 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1634 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1635 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1636 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1638 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1639 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1641 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1642 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1645 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1647 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1648 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1650 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1651 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1654 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1656 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1659 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1660 output list separator was used.
1665 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1666 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1669 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1670 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1672 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1674 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1675 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1681 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1683 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1684 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1685 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1686 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1687 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1688 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1690 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1691 utilities have not been installed.
1693 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1694 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1696 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1697 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1699 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1700 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1701 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1702 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1704 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1706 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1707 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1709 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1712 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1714 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1715 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1716 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1718 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1719 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1720 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1721 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1722 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1723 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1725 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1727 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1728 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1730 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1733 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1735 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1737 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1738 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1740 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1741 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1743 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1745 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1747 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1748 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1750 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1751 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1752 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1754 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1755 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1756 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1759 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1761 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1762 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1765 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1766 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1769 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1770 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1772 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1773 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1775 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1777 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1778 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1779 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1781 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1782 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1784 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1785 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1788 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1789 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1790 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1792 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1794 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1795 Christian Aistleitner.
1797 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1799 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1800 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1802 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1803 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1805 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1806 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1808 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1809 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1811 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1812 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1814 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1815 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1816 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1818 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1820 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1821 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1824 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1826 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1827 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1834 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1836 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1837 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1839 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1842 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1843 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1846 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1848 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1849 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1850 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1851 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1852 using channel bindings instead).
1854 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1855 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1856 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1857 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1858 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1861 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1863 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1865 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1866 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1868 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1869 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1870 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1872 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1874 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1876 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1877 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1879 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1881 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1883 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1885 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1886 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1888 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1890 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1891 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1894 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1895 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1897 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1898 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1901 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1903 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1905 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1906 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1908 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1911 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1912 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1914 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1915 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1917 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1919 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1921 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1924 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1927 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1929 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1930 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1931 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1932 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1934 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1936 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1937 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1938 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1939 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1942 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1943 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1944 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1946 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1947 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1948 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1949 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1951 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1952 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1953 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1954 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1955 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1956 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1957 delivery, as in LMTP.
1959 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1960 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1962 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1964 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1968 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1969 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1970 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1971 username as equal to the username.
1973 This change corrects that bug.
1975 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1976 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1977 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1979 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1981 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1982 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1983 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1984 NULL dereference and crash.
1986 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1988 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1989 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1990 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1992 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1994 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1995 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1996 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1997 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1998 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1999 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2000 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2001 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2002 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2003 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2004 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2006 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2007 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2009 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2010 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2013 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2014 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2015 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2016 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2017 an empty string is now equivalent.
2019 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2020 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2021 not performing validation itself.
2023 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2024 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2026 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2029 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2031 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2032 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2033 other false fix of the same issue.
2034 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2037 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2038 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2040 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2041 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2042 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2044 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2045 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2046 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2048 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2050 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2052 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2053 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2055 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2058 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2059 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2060 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2061 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2062 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2064 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2065 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2067 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2068 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2071 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2072 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2073 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2074 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2076 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2078 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2079 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2080 from multiple comments on this bug.
2082 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2084 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2085 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2088 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2089 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2091 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2092 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2098 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2100 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2106 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2107 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2108 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2110 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2112 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2115 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2117 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2119 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2121 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2122 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2124 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2125 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2127 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2128 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2130 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2131 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2132 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2134 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2136 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2137 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2139 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2141 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2143 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2144 non-compliant senders.
2145 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2147 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2148 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2149 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2151 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2152 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2153 in spool file corruption.
2155 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2156 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2157 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2160 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2161 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2162 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2164 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2165 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2167 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2169 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2171 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2173 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2174 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2175 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2177 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2178 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2179 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2180 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2182 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2183 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2185 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2186 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2187 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2188 resolver implementation change.
2190 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2191 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2193 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2195 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2197 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2198 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2200 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2201 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2203 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2204 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2206 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2207 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2208 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2209 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2210 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2212 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2214 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2215 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2216 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2218 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2220 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2221 read-only, out of scope).
2222 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2224 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2225 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2226 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2227 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2229 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2231 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2232 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2233 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2234 real issues in debug logging.
2236 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2237 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2239 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2240 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2241 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2243 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2244 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2245 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2248 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2249 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2251 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2252 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2253 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2254 needs to override this, it can.
2256 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2257 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2258 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2260 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2261 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2262 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2263 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2265 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2271 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2272 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2274 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2276 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2279 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2280 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2282 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2283 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2284 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2286 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2287 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2288 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2289 not safe for signals.
2291 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2292 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2293 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2294 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2297 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2299 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2300 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2301 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2302 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2303 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2305 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2306 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2307 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2308 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2309 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2310 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2312 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2313 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2314 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2315 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2317 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2318 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2319 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2320 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2322 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2323 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2324 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2325 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2326 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2327 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2328 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2329 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2330 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2332 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2333 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2334 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2335 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2337 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2338 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2339 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2340 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2341 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2342 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2343 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2344 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2345 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2346 details in the main documentation.
2348 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2350 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2352 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2353 repository when doing development or release builds.
2355 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2356 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2358 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2359 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2362 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2364 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2365 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2367 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2368 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2370 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2371 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2373 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2374 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2376 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2377 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2379 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2381 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2384 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2385 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2386 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2388 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2390 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2392 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2393 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2399 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2401 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2402 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2404 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2406 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2408 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2411 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2412 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2414 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2415 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2417 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2418 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2420 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2423 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2424 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2426 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2427 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2428 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2429 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2431 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2432 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2438 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2441 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2442 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2443 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2445 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2446 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2448 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2449 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2450 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2452 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2453 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2455 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2456 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2458 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2459 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2461 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2462 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2464 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2465 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2467 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2470 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2471 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2473 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2474 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2476 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2477 SQL string expansion failure details.
2478 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2480 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2481 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2483 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2484 extern declarations in function scope.
2485 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2487 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2488 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2489 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2492 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2493 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2495 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2496 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2498 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2499 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2501 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2502 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2504 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2505 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2508 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2510 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2512 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2513 Patch by Simon Arlott
2515 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2516 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2522 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2523 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2525 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2526 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2528 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2530 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2531 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2532 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2534 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2535 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2536 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2538 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2539 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2540 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2541 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2543 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2544 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2545 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2546 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2548 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2549 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2550 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2553 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2556 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2557 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2558 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2559 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2560 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2566 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2567 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2568 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2570 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2571 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2573 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2575 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2577 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2579 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2581 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2583 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2584 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2585 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2586 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2588 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2589 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2590 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2591 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2592 more caution in buffer sizes.
2594 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2596 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2598 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2600 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2602 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2604 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2606 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2608 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2609 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2610 ignore trailing whitespace.
2612 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2614 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2617 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2618 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2620 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2621 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2622 Notification from John Horne.
2624 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2627 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2628 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2631 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2634 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2635 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2636 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2638 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2639 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2640 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2643 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2644 option (effectively making it always true).
2646 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2647 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2649 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2650 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2652 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2653 run-time user, instead of root.
2655 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2656 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2658 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2659 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2662 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2663 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2664 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2666 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2668 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2674 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2675 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2678 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2679 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2682 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2683 Patch from Alain Williams
2685 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2687 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2688 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2690 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2691 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2693 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2695 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2697 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2698 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2700 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2702 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2704 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2705 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2706 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2708 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2709 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2711 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2712 Patch by Simon Arlott
2714 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2715 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2721 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2723 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2725 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2727 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2729 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2735 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2736 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2738 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2739 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2742 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2743 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2744 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2746 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2747 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2749 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2750 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2751 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2752 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2754 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2755 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2756 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2758 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2760 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2762 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2763 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2765 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2767 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2768 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2769 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2770 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2772 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2773 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2775 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2777 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2779 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2780 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2782 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2783 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2785 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2786 that they are available at delivery time.
2788 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2790 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2791 incoming_port log selectors.
2793 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2794 setting expands to an empty string.
2796 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2797 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2799 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2800 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2802 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2803 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2805 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2806 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2808 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2809 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2811 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2812 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2814 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2816 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2817 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2819 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2820 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2822 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2824 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2825 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2827 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2829 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2831 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2834 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2835 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2837 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2838 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2840 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2841 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2843 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2844 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2846 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2847 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2849 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2850 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2852 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2853 plus update to original patch.
2855 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2857 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2858 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2860 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2862 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2864 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2866 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2868 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2869 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2871 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2872 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2874 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2875 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2877 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2878 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2880 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2882 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2884 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2886 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2892 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2893 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2894 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2896 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2897 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2898 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2899 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2900 build errors in sieve.c.
2902 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2903 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2904 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2906 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2908 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2910 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2912 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2918 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2920 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2921 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2922 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2923 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2924 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2925 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2926 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2927 for iplsearch lookups.
2929 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2930 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2931 previously such lookups could never work.
2933 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2934 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2935 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2937 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2940 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2941 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2942 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2943 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2944 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2945 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2947 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2948 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2950 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2951 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2952 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2953 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2954 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2955 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2957 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2960 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2962 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2963 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2966 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2967 by clients under certain conditions.
2969 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2970 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2972 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2974 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2975 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2977 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2979 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2981 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2983 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2984 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2986 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2988 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2989 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2991 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2993 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2995 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2996 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2997 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2998 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3000 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3001 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3002 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3004 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3005 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3007 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3009 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3011 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3013 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3014 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3015 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3021 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3022 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3025 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3026 issue a MAIL command.
3028 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3030 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3032 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3033 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3034 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3035 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3036 item. This has been fixed.
3038 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3039 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3041 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3042 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3044 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3045 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3046 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3048 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3050 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3051 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3052 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3053 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3054 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3056 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3057 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3058 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3060 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3061 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3062 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3063 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3065 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3067 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3069 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3070 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3071 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3072 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3073 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3075 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3077 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3078 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3079 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3082 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3084 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3086 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3088 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3090 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3092 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3093 no_callout_flush is set.
3095 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3096 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3097 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3100 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3102 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3103 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3104 other ACL rejections are.
3106 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3107 with slight modification.
3109 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3110 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3112 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3113 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3116 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3117 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3119 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3121 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3122 expansion side effects.
3124 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3125 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3126 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3129 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3130 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3131 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3133 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3134 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3135 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3136 were accidentally chopped off.
3138 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3139 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3140 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3141 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3142 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3143 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3144 pipelining has not been advertised.
3146 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3148 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3149 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3150 This has been fixed.
3152 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3153 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3154 reported on Solaris.
3156 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3157 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3158 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3159 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3160 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3161 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3162 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3164 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3167 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3169 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3171 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3172 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3173 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3174 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3175 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3176 criteria to be more general.
3178 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3179 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3180 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3181 host_all_ignored option.
3183 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3184 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3185 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3186 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3187 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3188 is what is supposed to happen).
3190 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3191 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3192 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3193 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3194 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3197 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3198 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3199 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3200 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3201 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3202 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3205 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3207 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3208 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3210 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3211 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3213 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3215 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3217 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3218 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3219 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3220 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3221 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3222 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3223 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3224 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3225 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3226 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3227 least in a lot of common cases.
3229 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3230 advertised in response to EHLO.
3236 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3237 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3239 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3240 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3242 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3243 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3244 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3246 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3247 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3248 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3249 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3250 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3256 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3257 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3260 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3261 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3262 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3264 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3265 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3266 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3267 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3268 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3269 rather than extend the field.
3275 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3276 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3277 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3278 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3281 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3282 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3283 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3285 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3286 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3287 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3289 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3290 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3291 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3294 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3295 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3296 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3297 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3298 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3299 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3300 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3301 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3302 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3303 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3304 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3306 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3309 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3310 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3311 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3312 ignores EPIPE as well.
3314 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3315 (quoted-printable decoding).
3317 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3318 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3320 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3322 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3324 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3326 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3327 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3329 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3332 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3333 miscellaneous code fixes
3335 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3338 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3339 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3340 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3341 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3342 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3343 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3344 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3345 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3347 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3348 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3349 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3350 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3352 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3353 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3354 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3355 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3356 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3357 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3358 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3359 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3360 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3362 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3365 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3366 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3367 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3368 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3369 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3370 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3371 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3372 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3374 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3375 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3378 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3379 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3380 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3381 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3382 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3383 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3384 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3385 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3386 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3387 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3388 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3389 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3390 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3392 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3393 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3394 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3395 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3396 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3397 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3398 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3400 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3401 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3402 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3403 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3404 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3405 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3406 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3407 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3408 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3409 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3411 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3412 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3413 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3414 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3415 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3417 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3418 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3419 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3420 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3421 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3422 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3423 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3425 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3426 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3427 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3428 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3429 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3430 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3433 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3434 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3435 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3438 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3439 if any retry times were supplied.
3441 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3442 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3443 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3445 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3447 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3449 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3450 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3451 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3452 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3453 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3454 before) are ignored.
3456 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3457 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3459 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3460 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3461 committing the later change.]
3463 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3464 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3465 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3466 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3467 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3468 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3469 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3470 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3471 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3473 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3474 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3475 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3476 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3477 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3478 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3479 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3480 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3481 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3483 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3484 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3485 hammering the server.
3487 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3488 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3490 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3492 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3493 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3494 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3496 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3497 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3498 one case where this was not true.
3500 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3501 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3502 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3503 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3506 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3507 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3508 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3509 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3510 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3511 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3512 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3513 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3514 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3517 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3518 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3519 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3520 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3522 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3523 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3525 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3526 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3527 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3529 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3531 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3533 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3535 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3536 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3537 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3538 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3540 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3541 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3543 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3544 be meaningful with "accept".
3546 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3547 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3549 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3550 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3551 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3553 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3554 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3555 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3556 there is data to show.
3557 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3559 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3560 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3561 as well as the number of messages.
3563 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3564 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3565 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3567 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3568 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3569 have a flag are now skipped.
3571 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3572 Added the -emptyok flag.
3574 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3575 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3577 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3578 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3579 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3581 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3584 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3585 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3587 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3589 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3590 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3592 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3594 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3595 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3596 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3597 contravention of the specifications.
3599 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3600 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3601 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3603 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3604 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3605 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3607 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3609 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3610 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3611 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3612 some point in the past.
3614 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3615 transport during callout processing was broken.
3617 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3618 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3620 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3621 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3623 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3624 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3626 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3632 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3633 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3635 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3636 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3637 there is data to show.
3638 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3640 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3641 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3643 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3644 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3646 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3647 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3649 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3650 submissions from trusted users.
3652 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3653 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3655 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3656 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3657 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3658 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3659 there is now a framework to start from.
3661 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3662 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3663 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3665 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3667 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3669 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3671 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3672 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3673 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3675 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3678 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3679 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3680 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3682 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3683 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3684 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3687 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3688 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3689 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3690 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3691 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3693 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3694 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3696 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3698 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3699 operations in malware.c.
3701 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3704 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3705 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3706 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3709 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3710 statements to "add_header".
3712 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3713 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3715 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3716 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3719 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3723 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3724 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3725 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3728 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3729 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3731 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3732 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3734 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3735 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3736 any possible encoding problems.
3738 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3739 but not after initializing Perl.
3741 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3742 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3743 apparently, which is not desirable.
3745 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3748 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3751 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3753 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3754 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3755 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3756 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3758 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3759 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3760 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3762 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3763 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3764 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3767 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3768 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3769 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3770 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3771 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3777 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3778 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3780 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3783 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3784 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3785 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3786 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3787 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3788 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3789 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3790 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3793 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3795 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3796 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3797 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3799 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3800 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3801 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3804 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3805 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3807 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3808 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3809 option (which defaults to 0600).
3811 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3813 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3814 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3815 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3816 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3817 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3818 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3819 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3821 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3827 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3828 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3829 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3830 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3831 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3832 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3835 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3836 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3838 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3840 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3841 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3842 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3843 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3844 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3847 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3848 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3850 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3851 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3852 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3853 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3854 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3856 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3857 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3858 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3859 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3861 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3862 be the same on different OS.
3864 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3867 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3868 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3870 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3873 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3874 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3875 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3876 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3877 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3878 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3881 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3882 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3883 when Exim was called.
3885 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3886 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3888 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3889 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3890 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3891 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3893 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3894 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3895 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3896 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3899 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3900 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3901 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3903 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3904 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3905 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3907 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3910 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3911 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3912 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3913 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3914 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3915 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3916 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3917 values from the SRV records were lost.
3919 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3920 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3921 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3923 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3924 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3925 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3927 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3928 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3929 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3930 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3931 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3932 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3933 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3934 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3935 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3936 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3938 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3939 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3940 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3942 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3943 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3945 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3946 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3947 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3948 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3951 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3952 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3953 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3955 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3956 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3957 PH/23 above applies.
3959 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3960 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3961 (for which there is an explicit test).
3963 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3965 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3966 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3967 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3968 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3969 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3971 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3972 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3973 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3974 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3976 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3977 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3978 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3980 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3982 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3984 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3985 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3986 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3988 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3989 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3990 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3991 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3992 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3994 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3995 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3996 the message gets confusing).
3998 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3999 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4000 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4001 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4003 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4004 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4005 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4006 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4009 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4010 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4011 the different processes.
4013 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4015 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4017 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4018 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4020 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4021 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4023 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4024 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4025 messages matching specified criteria.
4027 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4029 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4030 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4032 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4033 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4034 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4035 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4036 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4037 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4038 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4039 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4040 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4041 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4043 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4044 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4045 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4047 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4049 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4050 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4051 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4052 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4053 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4054 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4055 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4058 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4059 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4061 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4063 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4065 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4067 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4068 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4069 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4070 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4071 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4072 size of the count of files.
4074 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4076 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4079 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4080 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4081 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4082 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4084 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4085 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4086 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4088 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4089 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4090 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4091 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4092 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4094 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4095 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4097 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4098 will now be deprecated.
4100 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4102 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4103 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4104 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4106 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4107 with very large, slow to parse queues
4109 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4111 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4113 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4114 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4115 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4118 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4119 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4120 Sieve code now uses this.
4122 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4123 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4125 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4126 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4128 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4130 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4131 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4132 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4133 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4134 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4136 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4137 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4138 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4139 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4141 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4143 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4145 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4146 is preferred over IPv4.
4148 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4149 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4150 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4151 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4152 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4153 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4154 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4156 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4157 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4158 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4160 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4162 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4163 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4164 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4165 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4166 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4167 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4168 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4169 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4170 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4171 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4172 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4174 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4175 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4176 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4182 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4184 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4185 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4187 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4188 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4189 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4191 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4193 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4196 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4199 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4200 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4201 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4204 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4205 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4207 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4208 inside the third argument.
4210 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4211 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4214 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4215 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4217 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4218 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4220 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4222 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4223 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4226 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4228 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4229 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4230 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4231 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4232 identical. For example:
4234 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4236 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4237 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4238 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4240 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4241 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4242 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4243 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4245 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4246 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4247 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4250 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4252 o fixes some comments
4253 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4254 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4255 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4256 and documents the missing references header update
4260 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4261 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4264 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4265 Electronic Mail") by including:
4267 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4269 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4270 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4271 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4272 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4273 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4275 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4277 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4279 The auto-replied keyword:
4281 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4282 message by an automatic process,
4284 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4286 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4287 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4289 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4290 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4293 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4294 to the default Received: header definition.
4296 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4298 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4299 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4300 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4302 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4303 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4304 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4306 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4307 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4308 and treats the condition as false.
4310 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4312 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4313 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4314 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4315 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4316 not changing the active code.
4318 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4319 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4321 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4322 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4324 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4327 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4328 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4329 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4330 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4331 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4332 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4333 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4334 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4335 the text comparison.
4337 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4338 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4339 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4340 The same fix has been applied.
4346 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4347 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4350 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4351 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4353 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4355 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4356 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4357 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4358 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4359 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4361 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4362 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4363 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4364 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4367 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4375 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4376 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4378 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4380 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4382 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4383 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4384 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4386 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4387 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4388 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4390 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4391 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4394 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4395 ${stat: expansion item.
4397 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4398 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4400 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4401 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4404 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4406 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4409 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4410 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4412 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4414 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4415 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4416 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4417 the end of the subprocess.
4419 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4420 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4421 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4422 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4423 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4425 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4427 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4429 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4430 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4432 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4434 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4436 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4437 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4440 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4442 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4443 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4444 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4446 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4447 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4449 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4450 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4452 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4453 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4455 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4456 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4458 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4459 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4460 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4461 contributed by a Radius user.
4463 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4464 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4466 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4467 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4469 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4472 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4473 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4476 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4477 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4478 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4479 header lines when this was not necessary.
4481 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4483 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4484 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4485 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4488 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4491 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4492 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4493 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4494 return code was incorrect.
4496 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4498 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4500 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4502 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4504 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4505 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4506 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4507 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4508 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4511 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4513 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4514 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4515 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4516 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4517 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4518 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4519 which is clearly wrong.
4521 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4523 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4524 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4525 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4528 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4529 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4531 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4533 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4534 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4536 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4537 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4539 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4540 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4542 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4543 recipients, not senders.
4545 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4546 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4548 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4550 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4552 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4553 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4554 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4555 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4557 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4559 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4560 clock is set back in time.
4562 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4563 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4565 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4566 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4568 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4569 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4572 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4573 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4576 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4579 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4581 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4582 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4583 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4585 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4586 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4587 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4588 helo verification defer as a failure.
4590 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4591 actual error message.
4597 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4599 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4600 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4601 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4602 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4604 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4606 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4607 can still be requested.
4609 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4610 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4611 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4612 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4614 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4615 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4616 circumstances, but probably never did.
4618 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4619 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4620 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4623 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4625 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4626 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4628 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4630 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4632 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4633 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4634 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4635 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4636 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4637 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4639 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4640 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4641 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4642 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4643 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4644 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4646 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4647 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4649 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4650 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4652 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4653 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4655 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4657 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4659 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4661 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4663 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4665 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4667 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4669 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4670 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4671 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4673 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4674 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4675 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4676 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4678 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4679 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4680 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4682 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4683 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4684 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4685 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4687 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4688 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4691 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4692 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4693 should work with maildirs and everything.
4695 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4696 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4698 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4701 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4702 function for BDB 4.3.
4704 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4706 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4707 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4710 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4711 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4712 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4713 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4714 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4715 formatting function string_vformat().
4717 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4718 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4719 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4720 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4721 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4722 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4723 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4724 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4726 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4727 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4730 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4731 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4733 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4734 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4735 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4736 test. It is now used for both.
4738 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4739 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4740 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4741 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4742 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4743 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4745 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4746 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4747 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4750 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4751 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4752 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4754 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4755 experimental DomainKeys support:
4757 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4758 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4759 the control was given.
4761 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4763 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4765 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4767 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4768 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4769 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4772 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4773 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4774 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4775 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4776 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4777 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4780 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4781 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4782 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4783 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4784 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4785 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4787 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4788 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4789 do -d+all out of habit.
4791 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4792 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4795 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4796 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4797 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4798 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4799 record types that Exim uses.
4801 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4802 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4803 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4804 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4805 non-existent file that was broken.
4807 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4808 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4810 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4811 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4812 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4814 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4816 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4817 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4818 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4819 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4820 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4823 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4824 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4825 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4826 at a slight CPU cost.
4828 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4829 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4831 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4834 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4836 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4837 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4843 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4844 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4846 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4848 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4850 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4851 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4853 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4854 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4855 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4856 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4857 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4858 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4861 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4862 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4863 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4864 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4867 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4868 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4869 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4870 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4871 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4872 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4873 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4876 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4877 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4879 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4880 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4881 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4882 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4883 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4884 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4886 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4887 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4888 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4889 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4891 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4894 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4895 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4897 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4898 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4899 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4900 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4903 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4905 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4906 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4908 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4909 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4910 to what was transported.)
4912 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4914 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4915 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4916 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4917 spamd_address settings.
4919 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4920 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4921 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4922 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4923 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4925 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4927 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4928 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4929 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4930 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4931 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4933 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4934 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4936 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4937 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4938 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4939 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4940 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4941 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4942 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4945 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4946 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4947 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4948 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4949 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4950 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4951 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4954 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4956 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4957 driver and ACL definitions.
4959 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4960 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4962 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4963 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4964 understands it better than I do:
4966 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4967 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4969 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4970 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4971 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4972 => three warnings about OTP not working
4973 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4975 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4976 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4977 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4978 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4980 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4981 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4983 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4984 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4985 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4987 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4988 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4991 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4992 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4995 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4996 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4997 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4999 warn !verify = sender
5000 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5002 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5003 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5005 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5007 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5008 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5010 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5011 nomenclature these days.)
5013 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5014 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5016 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5017 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5018 . First host does not offer TLS;
5019 . First host accepts first address;
5020 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5021 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5022 . Second host accepts second address.
5023 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5024 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5027 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5028 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5029 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5030 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5031 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5033 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5034 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5036 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5037 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5039 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5040 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5041 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5043 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5044 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5047 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5049 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5050 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5051 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5052 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5053 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5054 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5055 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5057 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5058 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5059 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5060 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5061 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5063 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5064 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5067 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5068 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5069 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5070 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5071 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5072 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5074 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5076 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5077 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5078 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5079 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5080 printable escape sequences.
5082 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5083 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5086 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5087 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5090 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5091 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5092 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5093 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5094 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5096 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5097 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5098 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5100 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5102 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5103 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5106 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5107 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5108 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5109 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5110 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5111 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5112 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5113 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5114 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5117 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5118 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5119 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5120 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5124 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5125 ----------------------------------------
5127 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5128 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5129 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5130 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5131 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5132 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5135 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5136 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5137 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5138 historical information.
5144 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5146 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5147 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5149 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5150 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5153 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5154 filter fails to execute.
5156 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5157 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5158 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5159 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5160 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5162 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5164 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5165 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5166 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5167 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5169 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5170 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5171 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5172 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5173 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5175 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5177 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5179 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5180 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5181 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5182 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5184 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5185 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5186 sender verification.
5188 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5189 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5191 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5193 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5196 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5197 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5199 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5200 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5202 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5203 information about exactly what failed.
5205 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5207 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5208 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5209 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5211 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5212 It is now set to "smtps".
5214 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5215 ignore_target_hosts.
5217 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5218 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5219 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5220 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5223 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5224 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5225 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5227 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5228 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5229 wake it up if nothing else does.
5231 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5232 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5233 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5236 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5237 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5239 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5241 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5242 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5243 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5244 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5245 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5246 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5247 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5248 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5250 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5251 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5252 than one IP address.
5254 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5255 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5256 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5257 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5259 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5260 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5261 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5262 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5263 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5266 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5267 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5268 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5269 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5271 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5272 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5275 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5276 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5277 $sender_host_address.
5279 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5280 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5281 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5282 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5283 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5286 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5288 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5289 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5291 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5292 just the host names, not the priorities.
5294 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5295 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5296 controlled by a keyword.
5298 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5299 multiple records are returned.
5301 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5302 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5305 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5307 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5308 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5310 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5311 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5312 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5314 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5316 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5318 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5320 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5321 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5322 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5323 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5324 because the tests only now provoked it.
5326 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5327 (this can affect the format of dates).
5329 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5330 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5331 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5332 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5334 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5336 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5337 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5338 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5339 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5341 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5342 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5343 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5345 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5348 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5349 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5350 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5351 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5352 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5353 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5356 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5357 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5358 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5361 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5362 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5363 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5365 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5366 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5367 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5368 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5369 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5370 so I produce this patch..."
5372 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5373 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5376 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5377 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5378 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5379 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5382 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5384 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5385 long debug lines gets shown.
5387 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5388 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5390 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5392 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5393 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5394 of $primary_hostname.
5396 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5397 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5398 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5399 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5400 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5401 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5402 by change 4.50/55 above.
5404 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5405 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5406 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5407 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5408 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5409 running as the user.
5412 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5413 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5414 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5417 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5418 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5420 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5421 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5422 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5423 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5424 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5426 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5427 This has been fixed.
5429 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5430 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5431 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5432 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5435 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5437 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5438 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5439 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5440 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5442 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5443 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5445 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5446 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5447 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5449 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5450 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5451 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5454 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5455 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5456 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5458 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5459 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5460 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5461 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5463 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5464 during host lookups.
5466 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5467 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5469 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5471 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5472 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5473 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5474 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5475 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5478 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5479 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5481 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5482 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5483 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5485 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5487 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5488 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5489 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5490 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5491 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5492 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5495 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5496 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5497 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5498 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5499 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5501 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5504 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5506 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5507 "vacation" handling.
5509 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5510 OS variants using glibc.
5512 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5515 ----------------------------------------------------
5516 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5517 ----------------------------------------------------
5523 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5524 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5527 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5528 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5531 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5532 filter fails to execute.
5534 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5535 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5536 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5537 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5538 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5540 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5541 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5542 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5543 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5545 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5546 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5547 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5548 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5549 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5551 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5553 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5554 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5555 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5556 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5558 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5559 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5560 sender verification.
5562 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5563 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5565 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5566 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5568 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5569 ignore_target_hosts.
5571 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5572 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5573 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5574 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5577 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5578 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5579 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5581 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5582 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5583 wake it up if nothing else does.
5585 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5586 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5587 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5590 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5591 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5593 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5595 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5596 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5599 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5600 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5603 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5604 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5605 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5606 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5607 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5610 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5611 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5614 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5615 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5616 $sender_host_address.
5618 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5620 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5621 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5622 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5624 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5627 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5628 (this can affect the format of dates).
5630 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5631 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5632 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5633 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5635 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5636 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5637 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5639 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5640 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5641 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5642 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5644 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5645 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5646 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5648 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5651 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5652 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5653 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5654 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5655 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5656 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5659 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5660 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5661 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5662 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5665 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5666 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5667 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5668 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5669 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5670 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5671 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5673 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5674 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5675 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5676 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5677 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5678 running as the user.
5681 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5682 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5683 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5686 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5687 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5688 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5689 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5690 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5692 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5693 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5694 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5695 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5698 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5699 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5700 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5701 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5702 because the tests only now provoked it.
5708 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5709 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5710 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5711 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5712 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5713 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5714 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5716 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5717 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5720 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5722 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5724 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5725 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5728 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5729 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5730 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5731 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5732 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5734 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5735 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5737 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5739 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5741 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5744 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5745 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5747 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5748 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5749 affecting debugging statements).
5751 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5753 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5754 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5755 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5756 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5757 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5758 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5759 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5760 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5761 after the received time, and all would be well.
5763 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5764 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5765 condition in an expansion string.
5767 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5769 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5770 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5771 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5772 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5773 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5774 job under whatever limits there are.
5776 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5778 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5781 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5782 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5783 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5784 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5787 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5788 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5789 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5790 binary data in such strings.
5792 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5794 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5795 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5796 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5797 failure, which is pointless.
5799 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5801 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5803 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5804 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5805 Sender: header lines.
5807 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5808 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5809 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5811 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5812 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5813 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5814 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5815 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5818 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5819 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5820 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5821 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5822 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5824 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5825 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5826 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5829 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5830 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5832 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5833 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5835 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5837 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5839 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5841 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5844 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5846 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5848 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5849 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5850 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5851 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5853 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5854 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5860 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5861 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5862 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5864 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5865 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5866 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5867 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5868 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5869 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5871 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5872 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5873 verification failure".
5875 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5876 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5877 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5878 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5880 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5881 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5882 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5883 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5884 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5885 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5886 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5887 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5888 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5889 treated as a timeout.
5891 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5892 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5893 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5894 not set for Exim filters).
5896 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5897 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5898 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5900 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5902 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5903 try to make them clearer.
5905 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5906 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5908 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5910 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5912 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5913 only the Cygwin environment.
5915 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5916 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5917 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5918 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5919 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5921 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5922 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5923 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5924 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5925 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5926 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5927 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5929 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5930 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5932 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5934 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5935 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5936 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5938 To: susanne@some.where
5940 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5941 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5942 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5943 of addresses in From: header lines).
5945 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5946 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5947 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5949 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5950 treated as non-personal.
5952 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5953 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5955 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5957 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5959 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5960 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5961 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5963 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5964 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5966 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5967 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5968 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5969 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5970 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5971 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5973 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5974 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5975 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5976 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5977 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5978 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5979 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5980 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5982 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5984 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5985 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5987 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5988 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5989 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5991 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5992 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5994 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5995 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5996 rather than long int.
5998 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6000 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6006 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6007 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6008 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6009 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6010 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6011 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6017 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6018 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6020 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6021 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6022 socklen_t is defined.
6024 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6027 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6030 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6031 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6032 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6033 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6034 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6036 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6037 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6038 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6039 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6041 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6042 of flapping under certain conditions.
6044 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6045 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6046 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6048 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6050 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6052 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6053 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6054 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6055 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6057 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6058 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6059 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6060 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6061 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6062 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6063 preserved with the message after it was received.
6065 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6066 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6067 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6068 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6069 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6070 test suite worked just fine.
6072 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6073 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6074 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6076 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6077 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6080 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6081 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6082 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6083 does not fully solve it.
6085 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6086 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6087 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6088 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6089 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6091 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6092 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6093 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6095 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6096 string, for example:
6098 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6100 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6101 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6102 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6103 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6104 the routers could not see them.
6106 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6107 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6109 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6110 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6113 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6114 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6115 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6116 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6117 that needed quoting.
6119 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6120 was not being matched caselessly.
6122 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6125 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6126 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6127 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6128 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6129 when use_sender is false.
6131 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6133 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6135 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6137 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6138 the configuration file.
6140 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6141 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6143 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6145 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6146 bytes in the message body.
6148 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6149 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6152 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6154 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6156 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6157 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6158 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6159 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6166 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6167 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6169 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6170 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6171 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6172 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6173 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6175 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6176 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6178 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6179 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6180 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6182 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6183 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6184 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6186 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6189 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6190 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6191 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6192 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6193 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6194 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6195 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6201 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6202 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6203 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6204 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6205 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6206 default (and expected) setting.
6208 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6209 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6210 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6211 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6213 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6214 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6216 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6219 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6220 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6221 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6222 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6223 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6224 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6226 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6227 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6228 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6230 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6231 part (NOT match_host).
6233 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6235 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6236 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6237 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6238 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6239 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6240 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6241 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6242 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6243 the same named file.
6245 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6246 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6249 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6250 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6251 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6252 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6255 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6256 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6257 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6259 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6261 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6263 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6265 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6266 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6268 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6269 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6270 before starting the TLS session.
6272 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6274 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6275 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6277 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6278 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6279 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6280 colon in the middle).
6286 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6287 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6288 multiple configurations are in use.
6290 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6291 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6292 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6293 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6294 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6295 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6297 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6298 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6300 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6301 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6302 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6304 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6305 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6308 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6309 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6311 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6313 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6314 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6316 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6324 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6325 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6326 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6327 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6328 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6330 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6333 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6334 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6335 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6336 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6337 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6338 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6340 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6341 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6342 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6343 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6344 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6345 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6346 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6349 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6350 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6351 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6352 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6353 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6355 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6357 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6358 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6359 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6361 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6363 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6364 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6365 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6368 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6369 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6371 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6372 Three changes have been made:
6374 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6375 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6376 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6377 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6378 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6380 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6383 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6384 the modified behaviour.
6390 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6393 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6394 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6396 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6397 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6398 try to track down a specific problem.
6400 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6401 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6402 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6404 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6407 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6408 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6409 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6410 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6411 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6412 some earlier ones do not.
6414 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6416 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6417 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6418 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6419 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6420 address literals are enabled, of course).
6422 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6424 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6425 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6426 by a command such as
6430 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6432 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6434 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6435 remained set. It is now erased.
6437 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6438 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6440 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6441 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6442 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6443 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6444 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6445 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6446 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6447 appropriate error code.
6449 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6450 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6451 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6452 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6453 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6454 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6456 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6457 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6458 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6460 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6461 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6462 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6463 terminate the header.
6465 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6466 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6467 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6469 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6470 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6471 (4.30/29). In particular:
6473 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6476 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6477 to write a maildirsize file.
6479 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6480 the transport, the new value overrides.
6482 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6485 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6486 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6487 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6490 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6491 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6492 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6495 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6496 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6497 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6499 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6500 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6503 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6504 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6505 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6507 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6509 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6511 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6513 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6514 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6517 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6518 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6519 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6520 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6521 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6522 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6523 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6526 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6527 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6528 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6529 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6530 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6533 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6534 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6535 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6536 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6537 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6538 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6539 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6540 cached value only when the same options are set.
6542 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6544 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6545 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6546 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6547 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6548 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6550 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6551 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6552 it is clearly obsolete.
6554 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6557 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6558 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6559 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6562 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6563 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6564 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6565 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6566 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6568 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6569 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6570 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6571 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6573 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6575 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6577 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6578 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6581 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6582 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6583 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6584 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6585 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6586 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6589 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6590 with the -f command-line option.
6592 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6593 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6594 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6595 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6596 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6597 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6599 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6600 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6603 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6604 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6605 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6606 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6607 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6608 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6609 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6610 buffer is too small.
6612 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6613 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6615 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6616 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6617 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6618 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6619 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6620 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6621 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6622 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6623 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6625 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6626 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6627 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6629 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6630 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6633 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6634 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6635 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6636 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6637 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6639 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6640 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6641 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6642 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6645 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6647 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6649 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6650 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6652 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6653 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6654 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6656 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6657 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6658 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6659 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6660 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6662 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6663 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6664 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6665 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6666 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6667 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6668 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6670 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6671 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6672 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6673 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6674 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6675 the test of how many are available.
6677 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6678 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6679 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6680 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6681 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6682 new message is started.
6684 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6685 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6687 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6688 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6690 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6691 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6692 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6695 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6696 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6697 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6698 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6699 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6700 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6701 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6703 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6704 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6705 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6706 interpreted as octal.
6708 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6711 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6712 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6713 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6714 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6715 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6716 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6718 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6719 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6720 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6721 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6723 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6724 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6725 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6726 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6728 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6729 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6732 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6733 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6735 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6737 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6738 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6739 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6740 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6742 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6743 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6744 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6745 supplied", which is not helpful.
6747 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6748 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6749 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6751 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6752 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6753 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6754 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6755 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6756 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6757 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6758 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6760 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6761 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6762 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6763 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6764 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6766 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6767 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6768 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6769 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6770 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6771 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6773 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6774 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6775 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6777 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6779 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6780 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6781 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6784 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6786 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6787 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6788 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6789 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6790 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6791 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6792 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6793 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6795 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6796 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6797 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6798 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6799 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6801 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6804 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6805 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6806 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6807 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6808 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6809 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6810 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6811 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6812 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6818 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6819 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6820 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6822 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6825 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6826 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6827 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6829 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6830 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6831 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6832 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6833 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6834 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6836 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6837 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6838 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6839 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6840 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6841 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6842 the Exim test suite.
6844 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6845 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6846 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6847 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6849 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6850 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6851 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6852 specify it in this variable.
6854 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6855 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6856 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6857 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6859 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6860 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6861 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6862 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6864 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6865 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6866 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6867 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6868 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6870 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6872 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6875 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6876 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6877 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6878 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6879 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6881 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6882 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6884 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6885 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6886 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6887 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6888 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6890 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6891 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6893 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6894 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6895 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6897 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6898 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6900 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6901 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6903 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6904 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6905 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6907 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6908 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6910 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6911 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6912 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6913 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6915 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6917 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6918 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6919 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6920 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6922 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6924 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6925 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6927 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6929 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6930 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6931 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6932 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6933 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6934 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6936 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6938 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6939 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6942 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6944 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6945 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6947 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6948 550 Sender verify failed
6950 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6951 the final line of the response.
6953 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6954 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6955 all other user lookups.
6957 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6960 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6961 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6962 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6963 result into an int without checking.
6965 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6966 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6967 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6969 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6970 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6971 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6972 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6974 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6977 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6978 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6980 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6981 to the empty sender.
6983 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6984 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6985 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6986 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6987 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6988 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6989 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6992 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6993 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6994 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6995 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6998 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6999 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7001 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7004 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7005 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7007 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7009 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7010 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7013 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7014 as soon as it is encountered.
7016 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7018 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7021 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7022 recognizes a tab character.
7024 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7025 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7026 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7027 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7029 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7031 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7034 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7036 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7038 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7039 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7042 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7043 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7044 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7045 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7046 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7048 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7049 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7051 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7052 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7053 list (.included file names were always shown).
7055 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7056 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7057 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7060 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7061 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7063 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7065 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7067 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7069 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7070 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7071 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7072 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7073 failures to open the logs.
7075 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7076 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7077 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7078 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7079 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7080 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7081 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7087 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7088 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7089 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7092 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7093 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7094 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7096 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7097 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7098 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7100 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7101 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7102 causing some misleading effects.
7104 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7105 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7106 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7108 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7109 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7110 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7111 queue-runner function directly.
7117 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7120 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7121 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7122 was always written to the default place.
7124 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7125 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7126 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7128 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7130 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7132 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7133 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7134 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7136 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7137 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7140 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7141 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7142 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7144 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7145 command line option is disabled.
7147 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7148 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7150 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7152 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7154 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7155 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7157 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7159 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7160 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7161 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7162 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7163 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7164 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7166 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7167 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7170 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7171 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7173 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7174 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7176 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7177 received was valid base64.
7179 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7180 name of the variable that was being set.
7182 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7184 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7185 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7186 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7187 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7188 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7189 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7191 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7193 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7194 nor realm was specified.
7196 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7197 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7198 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7199 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7201 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7202 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7203 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7205 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7206 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7207 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7209 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7210 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7211 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7212 some systems use these upper case variants.
7214 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7215 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7216 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7217 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7219 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7221 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7222 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7224 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7225 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7228 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7230 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7231 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7232 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7233 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7235 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7238 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7239 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7240 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7242 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7243 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7245 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7246 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7247 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7248 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7250 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7251 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7252 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7254 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7256 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7257 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7258 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7259 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7262 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7263 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7264 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7266 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7268 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7269 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7271 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7272 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7274 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7275 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7276 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7277 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7278 when emails are that large.
7285 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7286 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7288 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7289 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7290 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7292 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7293 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7294 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7296 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7297 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7298 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7299 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7300 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7302 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7303 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7304 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7305 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7306 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7309 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7310 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7311 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7312 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7313 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7314 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7315 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7316 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7317 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7318 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7319 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7320 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7321 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7322 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7324 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7325 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7328 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7329 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7330 error should be diagnosed.
7332 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7333 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7334 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7335 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7336 appeared instead of "NULL".
7338 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7339 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7340 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7341 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7342 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7343 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7346 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7347 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7348 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7354 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7355 or receiver verification errors.
7357 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7360 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7361 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7362 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7363 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7365 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7366 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7367 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7368 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7369 shouldn't happen again.
7371 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7372 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7373 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7375 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7376 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7378 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7380 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7381 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7383 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7384 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7387 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7388 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7389 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7391 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7392 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7393 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7394 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7396 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7397 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7398 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7399 to define what should happen).
7401 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7402 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7403 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7405 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7407 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7409 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7410 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7412 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7413 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7414 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7415 structure in all cases.
7417 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7418 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7419 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7420 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7422 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7423 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7426 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7427 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7429 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7430 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7432 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7433 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7434 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7436 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7437 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7438 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7440 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7441 the book and for uniformity.
7443 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7445 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7446 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7447 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7448 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7449 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7450 non-existent command as the problem.
7452 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7453 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7454 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7456 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7458 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7459 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7460 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7462 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7463 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7464 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7465 timestamps using strftime().
7467 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7468 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7470 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7471 transport-time rewrites.
7473 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7474 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7475 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7476 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7478 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7479 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7481 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7482 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7483 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7484 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7487 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7488 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7489 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7490 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7491 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7492 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7493 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7495 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7496 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7497 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7498 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7499 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7501 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7502 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7503 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7504 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7505 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7506 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7507 remaining text gets split now.
7509 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7510 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7511 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7512 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7514 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7515 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7516 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7517 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7520 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7521 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7522 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7523 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7524 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7525 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7526 passed through if needed.
7528 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7529 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7530 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7531 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7532 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7533 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7535 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7536 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7537 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7538 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7539 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7541 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7542 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7543 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7544 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7545 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7547 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7548 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7551 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7552 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7553 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7554 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7555 mayhem of various kinds.
7557 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7558 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7559 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7560 the right test for positive values.
7562 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7563 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7564 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7565 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7566 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7567 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7568 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7569 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7570 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7571 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7574 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7577 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7578 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7581 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7582 the existing equality matching.
7584 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7585 dealing with inode numbers.
7587 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7588 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7589 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7591 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7592 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7593 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7594 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7597 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7598 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7599 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7600 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7601 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7602 relay addresses has also been removed.
7604 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7606 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7607 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7608 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7610 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7611 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7612 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7613 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7614 processing applies to CR:
7616 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7617 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7619 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7620 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7621 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7622 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7624 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7625 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7626 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7628 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7629 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7630 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7631 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7632 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7633 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7636 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7639 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7640 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7641 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7642 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7645 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7647 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7649 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7651 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7652 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7653 not considered personal.
7655 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7657 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7659 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7661 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7662 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7663 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7664 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7665 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7666 header lines, and spool format errors.
7668 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7669 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7670 for more flexibility.
7672 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7673 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7674 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7676 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7679 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7680 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7681 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7682 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7683 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7684 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7685 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7686 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7687 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7689 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7690 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7691 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7692 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7693 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7694 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7695 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7697 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7698 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7699 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7701 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7702 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7703 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7704 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7705 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7706 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7707 instead of killing the process with assert().
7709 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7710 than Unicode encoding.
7712 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7713 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7714 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7715 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7717 77. Added process_log_path.
7719 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7720 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7722 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7723 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7725 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7726 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7727 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7729 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7730 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7731 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7732 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7733 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7736 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7737 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7740 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7741 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7742 they will be used during message reception.
7748 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.