1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
11 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
12 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
13 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
14 pairs of long lines into single ones.
16 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
17 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
19 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
20 This permits better logging.
26 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
27 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
29 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
31 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
32 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
34 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
35 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
37 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
38 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
39 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
40 before acknowledging the chunk.
42 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
43 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
44 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
46 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
47 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
48 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
51 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
52 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
53 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
55 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
56 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
58 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
59 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
60 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
61 body hash calculated value.
63 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
64 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
65 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
67 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
69 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
70 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
72 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
73 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
74 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
76 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
77 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
78 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
79 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
80 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
81 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
83 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
84 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
85 past that check, despite the cost.
87 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
88 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
89 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
91 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
92 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
93 TLS library to consume.
95 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
97 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
99 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
100 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
101 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
102 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
103 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
104 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
105 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
107 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
109 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
111 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
112 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
113 should be warning-free.
115 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
117 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
118 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
120 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
121 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
122 general solution here.
124 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
125 already-broken messages in the queue.
127 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
129 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
135 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
136 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
138 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
139 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
140 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
142 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
143 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
144 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
145 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
146 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
147 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
148 if one fails this test.
149 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
150 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
152 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
153 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
155 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
156 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
158 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
159 in rewrites and routers.
161 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
162 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
164 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
165 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
167 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
169 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
172 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
173 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
174 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
175 connection after a verify cache hit.
176 Do not update it with the verify result either.
178 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
179 when routing results in more than one destination address.
181 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
182 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
183 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
184 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
185 when the cutthrough connection is made).
187 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
188 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
190 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
191 Previously they were not counted.
193 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
194 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
195 that needed the lookup.
197 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
198 distinguished as "(=".
200 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
201 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
203 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
205 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
206 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
208 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
209 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
211 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
212 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
215 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
216 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
217 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
218 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
220 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
222 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
223 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
224 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
226 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
227 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
228 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
231 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
232 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
233 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
236 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
237 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
238 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
240 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
241 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
244 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
246 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
247 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
249 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
250 are not in the system include path.
252 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
253 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
254 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
255 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
257 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
258 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
259 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
261 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
263 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
264 an incoming connection.
266 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
269 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
270 fallback to "prime256v1".
272 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
273 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
279 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
280 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
281 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
282 client dropping the TLS connection.
284 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
285 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
287 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
288 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
289 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
290 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
293 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
294 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
295 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
296 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
297 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
298 check on the next write.
300 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
301 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
302 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
303 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
304 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
306 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
307 mime_regex ACL conditions.
309 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
310 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
311 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
313 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
314 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
315 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
316 an authenticate fail is not an error.
318 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
319 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
321 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
322 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
324 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
325 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
326 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
329 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
331 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
333 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
335 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
336 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
338 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
339 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
341 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
343 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
344 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
346 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
348 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
349 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
351 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
353 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
354 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
355 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
356 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
357 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
358 they will retry in-clear.
359 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
360 at installation time.
362 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
363 with the $config_file variable.
365 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
366 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
367 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
368 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
369 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
371 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
372 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
373 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
374 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
375 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
377 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
379 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
380 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
381 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
382 list order is no longer honoured.
384 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
387 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
388 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
390 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
391 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
392 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
393 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
395 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
396 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
398 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
399 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
401 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
402 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
404 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
406 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
407 cached by the daemon.
409 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
410 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
412 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
413 keys are given for lookup.
415 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
416 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
417 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
418 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
420 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
421 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
422 server-side so match that on older versions.
424 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
425 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
426 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
428 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
429 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
431 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
432 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
433 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
434 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
435 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
436 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
437 initial truncated version.
439 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
441 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
443 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
444 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
446 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
448 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
450 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
451 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
454 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
455 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
458 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
459 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
461 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
462 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
465 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
466 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
467 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
469 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
470 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
471 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
472 extraction. Accept either.
478 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
481 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
483 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
486 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
487 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
488 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
489 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
491 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
492 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
493 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
495 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
496 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
497 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
500 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
503 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
504 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
505 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
506 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
507 have a dsn_lasthop option.
509 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
510 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
511 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
513 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
515 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
516 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
518 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
519 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
521 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
524 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
525 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
527 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
528 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
529 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
531 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
532 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
533 specify a port-range.
535 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
536 timeout value per server.
538 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
539 now have the list separator specified.
541 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
544 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
547 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
549 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
550 rather than the verbs used.
552 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
553 from 255 to 1024 chars.
555 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
557 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
558 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
560 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
561 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
563 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
564 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
566 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
568 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
570 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
571 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
572 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
573 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
575 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
577 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
578 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
580 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
581 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
583 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
585 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
587 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
589 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
590 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
592 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
593 added for tls authenticator.
595 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
601 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
602 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
603 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
604 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
605 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
606 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
607 the script parsing/test process like normal.
609 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
610 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
611 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
612 function when detected.
614 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
615 cause callback expansion.
617 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
618 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
619 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
620 instead of bool when processing it.
622 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
623 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
625 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
627 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
629 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
631 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
632 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
634 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
635 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
636 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
637 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
638 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
639 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
641 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
642 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
645 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
646 version 3.3.6 or later.
648 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
649 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
650 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
651 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
652 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
653 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
656 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
657 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
659 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
660 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
661 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
664 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
665 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
666 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
668 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
669 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
671 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
672 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
675 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
677 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
678 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
680 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
681 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
684 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
686 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
689 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
690 output list separator was used.
695 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
696 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
699 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
700 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
702 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
704 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
705 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
711 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
713 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
714 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
715 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
716 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
717 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
718 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
720 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
721 utilities have not been installed.
723 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
724 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
726 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
727 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
729 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
730 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
731 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
732 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
734 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
736 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
737 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
739 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
742 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
744 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
745 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
746 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
748 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
749 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
750 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
751 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
752 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
753 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
755 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
757 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
758 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
760 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
763 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
765 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
767 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
768 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
770 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
771 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
773 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
775 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
777 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
778 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
780 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
781 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
782 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
784 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
785 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
786 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
789 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
791 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
792 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
795 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
796 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
799 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
800 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
802 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
803 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
805 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
807 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
808 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
809 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
811 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
812 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
814 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
815 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
818 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
819 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
820 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
822 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
824 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
825 Christian Aistleitner.
827 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
829 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
830 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
832 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
833 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
835 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
836 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
838 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
839 support and error reporting did not work properly.
841 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
842 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
844 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
845 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
846 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
848 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
850 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
851 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
854 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
856 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
857 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
864 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
866 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
867 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
869 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
872 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
873 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
876 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
878 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
879 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
880 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
881 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
882 using channel bindings instead).
884 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
885 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
886 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
887 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
888 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
891 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
893 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
895 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
896 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
898 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
899 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
900 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
902 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
904 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
906 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
907 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
909 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
911 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
913 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
915 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
916 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
918 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
920 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
921 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
924 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
925 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
927 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
928 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
931 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
933 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
935 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
936 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
938 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
941 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
942 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
944 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
945 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
947 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
949 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
951 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
954 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
957 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
959 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
960 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
961 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
962 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
964 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
966 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
967 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
968 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
969 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
972 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
973 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
974 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
976 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
977 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
978 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
979 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
981 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
982 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
983 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
984 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
985 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
986 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
987 delivery, as in LMTP.
989 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
990 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
992 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
994 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
998 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
999 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1000 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1001 username as equal to the username.
1003 This change corrects that bug.
1005 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1006 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1007 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1009 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1011 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1012 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1013 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1014 NULL dereference and crash.
1016 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1018 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1019 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1020 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1022 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1024 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1025 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1026 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1027 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1028 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1029 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1030 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1031 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1032 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1033 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1034 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1036 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1037 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1039 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1040 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1043 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1044 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1045 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1046 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1047 an empty string is now equivalent.
1049 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1050 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1051 not performing validation itself.
1053 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1054 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1056 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1059 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1061 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1062 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1063 other false fix of the same issue.
1064 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1067 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1068 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1070 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1071 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1072 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1074 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1075 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1076 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1078 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1080 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1082 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1083 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1085 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1088 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1089 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1090 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1091 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1092 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1094 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1095 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1097 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1098 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1101 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1102 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1103 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1104 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1106 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1108 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1109 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1110 from multiple comments on this bug.
1112 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1114 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1115 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1118 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1119 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1121 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1122 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1128 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1130 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1136 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1137 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1138 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1140 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1142 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1145 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1147 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1149 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1151 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1152 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1154 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1155 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1157 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1158 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1160 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1161 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1162 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1164 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1166 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1167 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1169 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1171 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1173 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1174 non-compliant senders.
1175 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1177 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1178 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1179 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1181 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1182 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1183 in spool file corruption.
1185 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1186 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1187 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1190 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1191 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1192 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1194 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1195 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1197 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1199 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1201 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1203 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
1204 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1205 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1207 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1208 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1209 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1210 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1212 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1213 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1215 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1216 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1217 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1218 resolver implementation change.
1220 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1221 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1223 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1225 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1227 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1228 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1230 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1231 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1233 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1234 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1236 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1237 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1238 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1239 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1240 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1242 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1244 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1245 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1246 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1248 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1250 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1251 read-only, out of scope).
1252 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1254 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1255 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1256 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1257 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1259 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1261 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1262 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1263 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1264 real issues in debug logging.
1266 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1267 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1269 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1270 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1271 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1273 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1274 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1275 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1278 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1279 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1281 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1282 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1283 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1284 needs to override this, it can.
1286 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1287 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1288 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1290 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1291 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1292 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1293 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1295 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1301 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1302 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1304 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1306 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1309 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1310 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1312 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1313 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1314 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1316 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1317 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1318 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1319 not safe for signals.
1321 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1322 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1323 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1324 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1327 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1329 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1330 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1331 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1332 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1333 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1335 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1336 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1337 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1338 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1339 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1340 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1342 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1343 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1344 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1345 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1347 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1348 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1349 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1350 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1352 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1353 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1354 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1355 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1356 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1357 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1358 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1359 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1360 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1362 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1363 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1364 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1365 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1367 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1368 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1369 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1370 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1371 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1372 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1373 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1374 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1375 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1376 details in the main documentation.
1378 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1380 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1382 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1383 repository when doing development or release builds.
1385 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1386 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1388 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1389 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1392 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1394 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1395 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1397 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1398 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1400 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1401 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1403 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1404 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1406 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1407 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1409 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1411 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1414 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1415 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1416 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1418 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1420 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1422 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1423 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1429 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1431 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1432 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1434 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1436 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1438 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1441 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1442 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1444 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1445 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1447 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1448 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1450 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1453 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1454 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1456 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1457 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1458 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1459 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1461 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1462 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
1468 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
1471 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1472 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1473 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1475 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1476 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1478 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1479 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1480 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1482 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1483 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1485 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1486 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1488 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1489 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1491 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1492 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1494 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1495 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
1497 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1500 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1501 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1503 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1504 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1506 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1507 SQL string expansion failure details.
1508 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1510 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1511 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1513 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1514 extern declarations in function scope.
1515 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1517 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1518 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1519 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1522 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1523 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1525 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1526 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1528 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1529 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1531 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1532 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1534 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1535 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1538 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
1540 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1542 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1543 Patch by Simon Arlott
1545 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1546 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1552 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1553 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1555 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1556 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1558 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1560 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1561 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1562 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1564 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1565 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1566 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1568 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1569 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1570 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1571 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1573 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1574 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1575 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1576 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1578 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1579 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1580 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1583 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1586 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1587 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1588 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1589 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1590 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1596 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1597 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1598 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1600 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1601 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1603 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1605 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1607 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1609 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
1611 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1613 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
1614 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1615 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
1616 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1618 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1619 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1620 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
1621 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1622 more caution in buffer sizes.
1624 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1626 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1628 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1630 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1632 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1634 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1636 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1638 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
1639 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1640 ignore trailing whitespace.
1642 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1644 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1647 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1648 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1650 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1651 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1652 Notification from John Horne.
1654 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1657 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1658 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1661 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1664 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1665 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1666 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1668 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1669 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1670 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1673 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1674 option (effectively making it always true).
1676 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1677 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1679 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1680 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1682 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1683 run-time user, instead of root.
1685 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
1686 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1688 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1689 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1692 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1693 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1694 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1696 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1698 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1704 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1705 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1708 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1709 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1712 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1713 Patch from Alain Williams
1715 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1717 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1718 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1720 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1721 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1723 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1725 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1727 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
1728 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
1730 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1732 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1734 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1735 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1736 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1738 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1739 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
1741 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
1742 Patch by Simon Arlott
1744 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
1745 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
1751 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
1753 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1755 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1757 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1759 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1765 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
1766 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
1768 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1769 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
1772 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1773 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
1774 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
1776 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1777 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1779 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1780 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1781 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1782 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1784 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1785 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
1786 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
1788 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1790 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1792 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
1793 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
1795 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
1797 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1798 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1799 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1800 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1802 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
1803 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
1805 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
1807 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
1809 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
1810 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
1812 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1813 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
1815 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1816 that they are available at delivery time.
1818 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1820 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1821 incoming_port log selectors.
1823 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1824 setting expands to an empty string.
1826 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
1827 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1829 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
1830 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
1832 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
1833 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
1835 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1836 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
1838 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1839 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
1841 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
1842 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1844 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1846 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
1847 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1849 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
1850 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
1852 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1854 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
1855 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
1857 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1859 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
1861 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1864 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1865 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1867 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1868 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1870 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1871 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1873 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1874 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1876 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1877 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1879 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1880 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1882 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1883 plus update to original patch.
1885 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
1887 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1888 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
1890 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
1892 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
1894 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
1896 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
1898 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
1899 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
1901 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1902 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
1904 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
1905 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
1907 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1908 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
1910 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
1912 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
1914 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
1916 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
1922 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1923 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1924 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1926 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1927 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1928 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1929 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1930 build errors in sieve.c.
1932 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1933 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1934 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1936 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1938 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1940 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1942 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1948 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1950 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1951 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1952 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1953 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1954 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1955 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1956 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1957 for iplsearch lookups.
1959 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1960 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1961 previously such lookups could never work.
1963 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
1964 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1965 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1967 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1970 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1971 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1972 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1973 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1974 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1975 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1977 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1978 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1980 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1981 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1982 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1983 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1984 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1985 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1987 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1990 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1992 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1993 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1996 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1997 by clients under certain conditions.
1999 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2000 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2002 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2004 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2005 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2007 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2009 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2011 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2013 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2014 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2016 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2018 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2019 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2021 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2023 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2025 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2026 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2027 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2028 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2030 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2031 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2032 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2034 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2035 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2037 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2039 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2041 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2043 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2044 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2045 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2051 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2052 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2055 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2056 issue a MAIL command.
2058 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2060 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2062 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2063 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2064 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2065 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2066 item. This has been fixed.
2068 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2069 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2071 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2072 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2074 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2075 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2076 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2078 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2080 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2081 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2082 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2083 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2084 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2086 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2087 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2088 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2090 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2091 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2092 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2093 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2095 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2097 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2099 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2100 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2101 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2102 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2103 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2105 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2107 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2108 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2109 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2112 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2114 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2116 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2118 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2120 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2122 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2123 no_callout_flush is set.
2125 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2126 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2127 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2130 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2132 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2133 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2134 other ACL rejections are.
2136 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2137 with slight modification.
2139 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2140 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2142 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2143 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2146 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2147 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2149 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2151 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2152 expansion side effects.
2154 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2155 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2156 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2159 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2160 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2161 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2163 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2164 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2165 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2166 were accidentally chopped off.
2168 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2169 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2170 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2171 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2172 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2173 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2174 pipelining has not been advertised.
2176 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2178 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2179 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2180 This has been fixed.
2182 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2183 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2184 reported on Solaris.
2186 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2187 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2188 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2189 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2190 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2191 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2192 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2194 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2197 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2199 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2201 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2202 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2203 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2204 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2205 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2206 criteria to be more general.
2208 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2209 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2210 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2211 host_all_ignored option.
2213 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2214 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2215 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2216 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2217 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2218 is what is supposed to happen).
2220 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2221 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2222 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2223 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2224 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2227 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2228 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2229 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2230 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2231 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2232 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2235 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2237 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2238 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2240 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2241 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2243 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2245 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2247 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2248 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2249 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2250 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2251 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2252 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2253 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2254 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2255 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2256 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2257 least in a lot of common cases.
2259 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2260 advertised in response to EHLO.
2266 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2267 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2269 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2270 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2272 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2273 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2274 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2276 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2277 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2278 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2279 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2280 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2286 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2287 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2290 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2291 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2292 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2294 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2295 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2296 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2297 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2298 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2299 rather than extend the field.
2305 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2306 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2307 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2308 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2311 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2312 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2313 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2315 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2316 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2317 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2319 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2320 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2321 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2324 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2325 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2326 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2327 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2328 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2329 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2330 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2331 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2332 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2333 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2334 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2336 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2339 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2340 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2341 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2342 ignores EPIPE as well.
2344 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2345 (quoted-printable decoding).
2347 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2348 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2350 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2352 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2354 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2356 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2357 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2359 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2362 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2363 miscellaneous code fixes
2365 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2368 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2369 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2370 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2371 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2372 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2373 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2374 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2375 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2377 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2378 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2379 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2380 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2382 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2383 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2384 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2385 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2386 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2387 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2388 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2389 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2390 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2392 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2395 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2396 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2397 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2398 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2399 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2400 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2401 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2402 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2404 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2405 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2408 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2409 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2410 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2411 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2412 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2413 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2414 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2415 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2416 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2417 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2418 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2419 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2420 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2422 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2423 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2424 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2425 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2426 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2427 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2428 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2430 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2431 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2432 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2433 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2434 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2435 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2436 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2437 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2438 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2439 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2441 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2442 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2443 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2444 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2445 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2447 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2448 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2449 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2450 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2451 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2452 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2453 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2455 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2456 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2457 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2458 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2459 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2460 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2463 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
2464 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2465 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2468 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2469 if any retry times were supplied.
2471 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2472 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2473 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2475 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2477 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2479 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2480 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2481 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2482 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
2483 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2484 before) are ignored.
2486 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2487 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2489 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2490 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2491 committing the later change.]
2493 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2494 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2495 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2496 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2497 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2498 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2499 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2500 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2501 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2503 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2504 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2505 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2506 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2507 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2508 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2509 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2510 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2511 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2513 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2514 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2515 hammering the server.
2517 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2518 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2520 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2522 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2523 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2524 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2526 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2527 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2528 one case where this was not true.
2530 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2531 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2532 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2533 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2536 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2537 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2538 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2539 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2540 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2541 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2542 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2543 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2544 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2547 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2548 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2549 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2550 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2552 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2553 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2555 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2556 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2557 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2559 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2561 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2563 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2565 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2566 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2567 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2568 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2570 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2571 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2573 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2574 be meaningful with "accept".
2576 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2577 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2579 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2580 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2581 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2583 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2584 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2585 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2586 there is data to show.
2587 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2589 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2590 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2591 as well as the number of messages.
2593 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2594 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2595 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2597 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2598 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2599 have a flag are now skipped.
2601 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2602 Added the -emptyok flag.
2604 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2605 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2607 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2608 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2609 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2611 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2614 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2615 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2617 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2619 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2620 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2622 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2624 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2625 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2626 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2627 contravention of the specifications.
2629 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2630 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2631 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
2633 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2634 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2635 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2637 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2639 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2640 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2641 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2642 some point in the past.
2644 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2645 transport during callout processing was broken.
2647 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2648 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2650 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2651 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2653 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2654 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2656 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2662 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2663 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2665 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2666 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2667 there is data to show.
2668 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2670 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2671 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2673 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2674 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
2676 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2677 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
2679 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2680 submissions from trusted users.
2682 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2683 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2685 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2686 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2687 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2688 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2689 there is now a framework to start from.
2691 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2692 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2693 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2695 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2697 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2699 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2701 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2702 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2703 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2705 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2708 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2709 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2710 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2712 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2713 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2714 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2717 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2718 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2719 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2720 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2721 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2723 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2724 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2726 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2728 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2729 operations in malware.c.
2731 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2734 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2735 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2736 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2739 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2740 statements to "add_header".
2742 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2743 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2745 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2746 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2749 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
2753 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2754 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2755 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
2758 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2759 don't think Precedence: ever was.
2761 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2762 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2764 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2765 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2766 any possible encoding problems.
2768 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2769 but not after initializing Perl.
2771 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2772 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2773 apparently, which is not desirable.
2775 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2778 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2781 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2783 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2784 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2785 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2786 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2788 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2789 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2790 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2792 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2793 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2794 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2797 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2798 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2799 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2800 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2801 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2807 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2808 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2810 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2813 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2814 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2815 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2816 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2817 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2818 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2819 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2820 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2823 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2825 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2826 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2827 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2829 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2830 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2831 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2834 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2835 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2837 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2838 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2839 option (which defaults to 0600).
2841 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2843 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2844 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2845 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2846 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2847 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2848 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2849 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2851 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2857 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2858 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2859 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2860 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2861 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2862 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2865 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2866 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2868 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2870 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2871 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2872 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2873 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2874 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2877 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2878 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2880 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2881 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2882 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2883 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2884 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2886 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2887 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2888 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2889 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2891 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2892 be the same on different OS.
2894 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2897 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2898 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2900 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2903 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2904 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2905 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2906 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2907 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2908 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2911 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2912 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2913 when Exim was called.
2915 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2916 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2918 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2919 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2920 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2921 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2923 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2924 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2925 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2926 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2929 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2930 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2931 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
2933 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2934 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2935 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2937 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2940 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2941 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2942 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2943 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2944 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2945 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2946 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2947 values from the SRV records were lost.
2949 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2950 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2951 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2953 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2954 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2955 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2957 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2958 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2959 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2960 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2961 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2962 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2963 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2964 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2965 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2966 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2968 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2969 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2970 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2972 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2973 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2975 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2976 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2977 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2978 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2981 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2982 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2983 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2985 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2986 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2987 PH/23 above applies.
2989 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2990 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2991 (for which there is an explicit test).
2993 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2995 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2996 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2997 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2998 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2999 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3001 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3002 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3003 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3004 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3006 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3007 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3008 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3010 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3012 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3014 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3015 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3016 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3018 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3019 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3020 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3021 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3022 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3024 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3025 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3026 the message gets confusing).
3028 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3029 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3030 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3031 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3033 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3034 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3035 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3036 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3039 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3040 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3041 the different processes.
3043 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3045 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3047 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3048 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3050 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3051 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3053 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3054 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3055 messages matching specified criteria.
3057 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3059 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3060 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3062 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3063 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3064 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3065 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3066 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3067 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3068 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3069 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3070 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3071 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3073 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3074 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3075 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3077 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3079 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3080 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3081 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3082 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3083 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3084 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3085 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3088 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3089 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3091 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3093 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3095 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3097 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3098 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3099 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3100 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3101 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3102 size of the count of files.
3104 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3106 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3109 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3110 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3111 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3112 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3114 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3115 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3116 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3118 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3119 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3120 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3121 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3122 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3124 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3125 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3127 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3128 will now be deprecated.
3130 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3132 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3133 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3134 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3136 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3137 with very large, slow to parse queues
3139 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3141 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3143 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3144 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3145 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3148 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3149 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3150 Sieve code now uses this.
3152 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3153 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3155 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3156 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3158 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3160 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3161 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3162 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3163 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3164 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3166 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3167 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3168 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3169 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3171 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3173 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3175 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3176 is preferred over IPv4.
3178 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3179 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3180 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3181 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3182 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3183 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3184 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3186 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3187 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3188 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3190 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3192 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3193 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3194 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3195 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3196 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3197 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3198 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3199 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3200 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3201 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3202 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3204 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3205 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3206 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3212 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3214 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3215 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3217 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3218 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3219 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3221 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3223 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3226 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3229 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3230 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3231 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3234 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3235 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3237 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3238 inside the third argument.
3240 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3241 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3244 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3245 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3247 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3248 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3250 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3252 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3253 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3256 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3258 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3259 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3260 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3261 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3262 identical. For example:
3264 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3266 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3267 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3268 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3270 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3271 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3272 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3273 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3275 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3276 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3277 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3280 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3282 o fixes some comments
3283 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3284 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3285 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3286 and documents the missing references header update
3290 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3291 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
3294 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3295 Electronic Mail") by including:
3297 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3299 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3300 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
3301 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3302 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3303 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3305 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3307 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3309 The auto-replied keyword:
3311 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3312 message by an automatic process,
3314 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3316 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3317 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3319 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3320 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3323 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3324 to the default Received: header definition.
3326 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3328 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3329 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3330 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3332 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3333 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3334 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3336 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3337 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3338 and treats the condition as false.
3340 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3342 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3343 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3344 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3345 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3346 not changing the active code.
3348 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3349 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3351 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3352 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3354 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3357 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3358 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3359 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3360 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3361 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3362 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3363 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3364 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3365 the text comparison.
3367 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3368 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3369 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3370 The same fix has been applied.
3376 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3377 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3380 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3381 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3383 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3385 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3386 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3387 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3388 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3389 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3391 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3392 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3393 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3394 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3397 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3405 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3406 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3408 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3410 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3412 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3413 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3414 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3416 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3417 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3418 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3420 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3421 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3424 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3425 ${stat: expansion item.
3427 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3428 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3430 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3431 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3434 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3436 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3439 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3440 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3442 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3444 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3445 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3446 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3447 the end of the subprocess.
3449 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3450 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3451 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3452 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3453 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3455 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3457 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3459 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3460 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3462 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3464 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3466 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3467 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3470 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3472 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3473 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3474 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3476 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3477 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3479 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3480 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3482 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3483 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3485 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3486 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3488 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3489 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3490 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3491 contributed by a Radius user.
3493 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3494 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3496 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3497 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3499 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3502 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3503 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3506 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3507 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3508 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3509 header lines when this was not necessary.
3511 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3513 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3514 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3515 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3518 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3521 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3522 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
3523 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3524 return code was incorrect.
3526 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3528 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3530 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3532 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3534 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3535 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3536 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3537 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3538 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3541 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3543 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3544 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3545 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3546 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3547 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3548 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3549 which is clearly wrong.
3551 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3553 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3554 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3555 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3558 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3559 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3561 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3563 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3564 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3566 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3567 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3569 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3570 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3572 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3573 recipients, not senders.
3575 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3576 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3578 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3580 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3582 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3583 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3584 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3585 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3587 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3589 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3590 clock is set back in time.
3592 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3593 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3595 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3596 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3598 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3599 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3602 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3603 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3606 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3609 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3611 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3612 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3613 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3615 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3616 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3617 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3618 helo verification defer as a failure.
3620 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3621 actual error message.
3627 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3629 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3630 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3631 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3632 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3634 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3636 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3637 can still be requested.
3639 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3640 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3641 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3642 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3644 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3645 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3646 circumstances, but probably never did.
3648 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3649 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3650 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3653 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3655 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3656 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
3658 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3660 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3662 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3663 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3664 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3665 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
3666 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3667 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
3669 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3670 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3671 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3672 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3673 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3674 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3676 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3677 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3679 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3680 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3682 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3683 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3685 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
3687 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3689 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3691 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3693 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3695 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3697 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3699 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3700 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3701 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3703 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3704 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3705 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3706 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3708 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3709 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3710 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3712 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3713 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3714 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3715 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3717 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3718 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3721 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3722 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3723 should work with maildirs and everything.
3725 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3726 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3728 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3731 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3732 function for BDB 4.3.
3734 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3736 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3737 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3740 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3741 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3742 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
3743 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3744 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3745 formatting function string_vformat().
3747 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3748 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3749 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3750 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3751 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3752 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3753 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3754 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3756 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3757 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3760 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3761 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3763 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3764 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3765 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3766 test. It is now used for both.
3768 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3769 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3770 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3771 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3772 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3773 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3775 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3776 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3777 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3780 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3781 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3782 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
3784 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3785 experimental DomainKeys support:
3787 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3788 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3789 the control was given.
3791 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3793 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3795 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3797 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3798 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3799 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3802 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
3803 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3804 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3805 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3806 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3807 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3810 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3811 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3812 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3813 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3814 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3815 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3817 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3818 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3819 do -d+all out of habit.
3821 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3822 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3825 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3826 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3827 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3828 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3829 record types that Exim uses.
3831 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3832 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3833 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3834 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3835 non-existent file that was broken.
3837 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3838 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3840 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3841 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3842 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3844 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3846 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3847 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3848 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3849 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3850 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3853 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3854 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3855 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3856 at a slight CPU cost.
3858 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3859 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3861 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3864 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3866 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3867 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3873 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3874 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3876 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
3878 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3880 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3881 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3883 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3884 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3885 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3886 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3887 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3888 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3891 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3892 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3893 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3894 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3897 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3898 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3899 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3900 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3901 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3902 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3903 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
3906 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3907 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3909 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3910 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3911 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3912 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3913 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3914 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3916 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3917 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3918 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3919 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3921 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3924 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3925 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
3927 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3928 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
3929 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3930 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3933 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3935 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3936 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3938 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3939 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3940 to what was transported.)
3942 TF/01 Added $received_time.
3944 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3945 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3946 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3947 spamd_address settings.
3949 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3950 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3951 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3952 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3953 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3955 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3957 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3958 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3959 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3960 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3961 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3963 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3964 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3966 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3967 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3968 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3969 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3970 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3971 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3972 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3975 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3976 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3977 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3978 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3979 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3980 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3981 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3984 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3986 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3987 driver and ACL definitions.
3989 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3990 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3992 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3993 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3994 understands it better than I do:
3996 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3997 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3999 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4000 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4001 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4002 => three warnings about OTP not working
4003 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4005 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4006 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4007 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4008 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4010 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4011 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4013 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4014 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4015 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4017 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4018 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4021 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4022 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4025 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4026 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4027 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4029 warn !verify = sender
4030 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4032 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4033 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4035 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4037 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4038 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4040 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4041 nomenclature these days.)
4043 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4044 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4046 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4047 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4048 . First host does not offer TLS;
4049 . First host accepts first address;
4050 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4051 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4052 . Second host accepts second address.
4053 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4054 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4057 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4058 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4059 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4060 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4061 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4063 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4064 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4066 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4067 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4069 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4070 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4071 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4073 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4074 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4077 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4079 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4080 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4081 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4082 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4083 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4084 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4085 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4087 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4088 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4089 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4090 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4091 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4093 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4094 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4097 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4098 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4099 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4100 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4101 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4102 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4104 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4106 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4107 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4108 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4109 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4110 printable escape sequences.
4112 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4113 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4116 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4117 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4120 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4121 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4122 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4123 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4124 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4126 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4127 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4128 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4130 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4132 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4133 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4136 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4137 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4138 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4139 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4140 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4141 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4142 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4143 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4144 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4147 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4148 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4149 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4150 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4154 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4155 ----------------------------------------
4157 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4158 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4159 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4160 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4161 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4162 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4165 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
4166 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4167 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4168 historical information.
4174 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4176 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4177 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4179 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4180 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4183 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4184 filter fails to execute.
4186 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4187 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4188 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4189 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4190 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4192 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4194 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4195 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4196 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4197 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4199 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4200 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4201 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4202 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4203 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4205 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4207 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4209 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4210 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4211 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4212 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4214 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4215 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4216 sender verification.
4218 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4219 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4221 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4223 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4226 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4227 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4229 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4230 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4232 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4233 information about exactly what failed.
4235 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4237 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4238 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4239 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4241 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4242 It is now set to "smtps".
4244 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4245 ignore_target_hosts.
4247 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4248 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4249 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4250 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4253 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4254 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4255 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4257 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4258 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4259 wake it up if nothing else does.
4261 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4262 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4263 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4266 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4267 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4269 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4271 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4272 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4273 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4274 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4275 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4276 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4277 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4278 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4280 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4281 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4282 than one IP address.
4284 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4285 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4286 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4287 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4289 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4290 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4291 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4292 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4293 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4296 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4297 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4298 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4299 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4301 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4302 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4305 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4306 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4307 $sender_host_address.
4309 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4310 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4311 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4312 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4313 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4316 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4318 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4319 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4321 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4322 just the host names, not the priorities.
4324 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4325 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4326 controlled by a keyword.
4328 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4329 multiple records are returned.
4331 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4332 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4335 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4337 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4338 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4340 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4341 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4342 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4344 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4346 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4348 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4350 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4351 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4352 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4353 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4354 because the tests only now provoked it.
4356 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4357 (this can affect the format of dates).
4359 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4360 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4361 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4362 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4364 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4366 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4367 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4368 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4369 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4371 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4372 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4373 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4375 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4378 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4379 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4380 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4381 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4382 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4383 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4386 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4387 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4388 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4391 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4392 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4393 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4395 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4396 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4397 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4398 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4399 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4400 so I produce this patch..."
4402 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4403 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4406 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4407 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4408 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4409 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4412 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4414 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4415 long debug lines gets shown.
4417 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4418 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4420 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4422 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4423 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4424 of $primary_hostname.
4426 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4427 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4428 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4429 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4430 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4431 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4432 by change 4.50/55 above.
4434 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4435 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4436 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4437 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4438 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4439 running as the user.
4442 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4443 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4444 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4447 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4448 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4450 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4451 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4452 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4453 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4454 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4456 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4457 This has been fixed.
4459 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4460 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4461 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4462 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4465 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4467 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4468 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4469 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4470 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4472 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4473 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4475 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4476 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4477 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4479 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4480 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4481 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4484 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4485 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4486 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4488 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4489 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4490 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4491 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4493 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4494 during host lookups.
4496 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4497 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4499 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4501 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4502 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4503 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4504 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4505 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4508 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4509 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4511 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4512 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4513 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4515 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4517 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4518 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4519 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4520 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4521 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4522 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4525 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4526 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4527 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4528 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4529 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4531 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4534 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4536 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4537 "vacation" handling.
4539 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4540 OS variants using glibc.
4542 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4545 ----------------------------------------------------
4546 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4547 ----------------------------------------------------
4553 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4554 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4557 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4558 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4561 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4562 filter fails to execute.
4564 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4565 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4566 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4567 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4568 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4570 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4571 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4572 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4573 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4575 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4576 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4577 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4578 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4579 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4581 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4583 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4584 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4585 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4586 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4588 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4589 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4590 sender verification.
4592 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4593 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4595 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4596 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4598 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4599 ignore_target_hosts.
4601 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4602 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4603 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4604 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4607 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4608 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4609 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4611 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4612 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4613 wake it up if nothing else does.
4615 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4616 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4617 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4620 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4621 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4623 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
4625 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4626 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4629 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4630 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4633 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4634 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4635 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4636 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4637 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4640 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4641 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4644 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4645 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4646 $sender_host_address.
4648 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4650 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4651 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4652 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4654 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
4657 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4658 (this can affect the format of dates).
4660 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4661 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4662 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4663 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4665 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4666 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4667 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4669 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4670 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4671 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4672 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4674 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4675 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4676 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4678 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4681 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4682 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4683 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4684 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4685 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4686 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4689 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4690 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4691 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4692 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4695 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4696 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4697 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4698 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4699 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4700 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4701 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4703 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4704 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4705 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4706 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4707 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4708 running as the user.
4711 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4712 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4713 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4716 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4717 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4718 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4719 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4720 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4722 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4723 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4724 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4725 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4728 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4729 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4730 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4731 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4732 because the tests only now provoked it.
4738 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4739 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4740 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4741 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4742 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4743 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4744 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4746 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4747 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4750 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4752 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4754 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4755 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4758 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4759 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4760 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4761 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4762 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4764 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4765 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4767 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4769 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4771 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4774 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4775 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4777 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4778 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4779 affecting debugging statements).
4781 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4783 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4784 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4785 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4786 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4787 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4788 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4789 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4790 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4791 after the received time, and all would be well.
4793 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4794 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4795 condition in an expansion string.
4797 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4799 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4800 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4801 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4802 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4803 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4804 job under whatever limits there are.
4806 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4808 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4811 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4812 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4813 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4814 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4817 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4818 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4819 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4820 binary data in such strings.
4822 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4824 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4825 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4826 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4827 failure, which is pointless.
4829 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4831 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4833 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4834 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4835 Sender: header lines.
4837 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4838 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4839 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4841 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4842 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4843 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4844 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4845 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4848 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4849 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4850 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4851 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4852 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4854 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4855 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4856 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4859 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4860 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4862 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4863 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4865 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4867 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4869 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4871 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4874 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4876 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4878 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4879 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4880 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4881 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4883 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4884 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4890 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4891 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4892 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4894 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4895 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4896 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4897 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4898 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4899 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4901 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4902 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4903 verification failure".
4905 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4906 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4907 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4908 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4910 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4911 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4912 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4913 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4914 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4915 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4916 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4917 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4918 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4919 treated as a timeout.
4921 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4922 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4923 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4924 not set for Exim filters).
4926 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4927 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4928 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4930 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4932 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4933 try to make them clearer.
4935 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4936 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4938 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4940 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4942 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4943 only the Cygwin environment.
4945 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4946 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4947 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4948 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4949 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4951 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4952 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4953 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4954 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4955 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4956 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4957 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4959 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4960 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4962 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4964 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4965 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4966 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4968 To: susanne@some.where
4970 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4971 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4972 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4973 of addresses in From: header lines).
4975 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4976 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4977 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4979 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4980 treated as non-personal.
4982 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4983 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4985 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4987 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4989 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4990 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4991 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4993 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4994 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4996 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4997 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4998 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4999 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5000 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5001 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5003 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5004 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5005 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5006 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5007 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5008 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5009 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5010 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5012 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5014 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5015 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5017 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5018 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5019 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5021 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5022 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5024 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5025 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5026 rather than long int.
5028 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5030 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5036 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5037 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5038 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5039 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5040 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5041 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5047 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5048 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5050 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5051 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5052 socklen_t is defined.
5054 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5057 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5060 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5061 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5062 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5063 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5064 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5066 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5067 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5068 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5069 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5071 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5072 of flapping under certain conditions.
5074 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5075 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5076 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5078 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5080 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5082 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5083 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5084 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5085 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5087 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5088 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5089 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5090 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5091 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5092 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5093 preserved with the message after it was received.
5095 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5096 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5097 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5098 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5099 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5100 test suite worked just fine.
5102 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5103 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5104 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5106 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5107 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5110 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5111 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5112 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5113 does not fully solve it.
5115 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5116 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5117 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5118 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5119 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5121 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5122 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5123 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5125 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5126 string, for example:
5128 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5130 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5131 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5132 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5133 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5134 the routers could not see them.
5136 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5137 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5139 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5140 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5143 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5144 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5145 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5146 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5147 that needed quoting.
5149 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5150 was not being matched caselessly.
5152 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5155 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5156 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5157 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5158 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5159 when use_sender is false.
5161 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5163 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5165 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5167 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5168 the configuration file.
5170 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5171 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5173 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5175 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5176 bytes in the message body.
5178 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5179 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5182 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5184 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5186 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5187 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5188 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5189 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5196 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5197 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5199 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5200 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5201 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5202 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5203 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5205 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5206 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5208 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5209 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5210 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5212 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5213 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5214 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5216 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5219 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5220 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5221 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5222 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5223 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5224 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5225 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5231 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5232 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5233 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5234 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5235 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5236 default (and expected) setting.
5238 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5239 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5240 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5241 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5243 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5244 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5246 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5249 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5250 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5251 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5252 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5253 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5254 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5256 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5257 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5258 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5260 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5261 part (NOT match_host).
5263 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5265 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5266 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5267 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5268 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5269 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5270 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5271 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5272 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5273 the same named file.
5275 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5276 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5279 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5280 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5281 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5282 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5285 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5286 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5287 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5289 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5291 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5293 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5295 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5296 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5298 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5299 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5300 before starting the TLS session.
5302 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5304 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5305 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5307 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5308 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5309 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5310 colon in the middle).
5316 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5317 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5318 multiple configurations are in use.
5320 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5321 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5322 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5323 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5324 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5325 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5327 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5328 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5330 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5331 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5332 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5334 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5335 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5338 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5339 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5341 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5343 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5344 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5346 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5354 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5355 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5356 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5357 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5358 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5360 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5363 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5364 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5365 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5366 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5367 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5368 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5370 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5371 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5372 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5373 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5374 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5375 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5376 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5379 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5380 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5381 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5382 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5383 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5385 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5387 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5388 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5389 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5391 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5393 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5394 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5395 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5398 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5399 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5401 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5402 Three changes have been made:
5404 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5405 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5406 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5407 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5408 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5410 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5413 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5414 the modified behaviour.
5420 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5423 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5424 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5426 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5427 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5428 try to track down a specific problem.
5430 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5431 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5432 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5434 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5437 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5438 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5439 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5440 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5441 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5442 some earlier ones do not.
5444 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5446 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5447 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5448 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5449 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5450 address literals are enabled, of course).
5452 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5454 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5455 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5456 by a command such as
5460 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5462 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5464 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5465 remained set. It is now erased.
5467 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5468 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5470 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5471 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5472 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5473 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5474 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5475 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5476 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5477 appropriate error code.
5479 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5480 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5481 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5482 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5483 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5484 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5486 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5487 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5488 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5490 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5491 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5492 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5493 terminate the header.
5495 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5496 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5497 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5499 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5500 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5501 (4.30/29). In particular:
5503 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5506 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5507 to write a maildirsize file.
5509 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5510 the transport, the new value overrides.
5512 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5515 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5516 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5517 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5520 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5521 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5522 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5525 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5526 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5527 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5529 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5530 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5533 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5534 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5535 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5537 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5539 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5541 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5543 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5544 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5547 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5548 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5549 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5550 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5551 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5552 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5553 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5556 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5557 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5558 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5559 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5560 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5563 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5564 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5565 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5566 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5567 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5568 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5569 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5570 cached value only when the same options are set.
5572 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5574 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5575 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5576 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5577 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5578 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5580 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5581 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5582 it is clearly obsolete.
5584 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5587 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5588 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5589 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5592 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5593 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5594 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5595 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5596 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5598 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5599 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5600 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5601 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5603 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5605 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5607 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5608 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5611 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5612 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5613 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5614 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5615 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5616 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5619 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5620 with the -f command-line option.
5622 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5623 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5624 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5625 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5626 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5627 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5629 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5630 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5633 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5634 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5635 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5636 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5637 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5638 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5639 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5640 buffer is too small.
5642 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5643 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5645 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5646 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5647 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5648 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5649 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5650 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5651 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5652 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5653 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5655 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5656 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5657 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5659 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5660 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5663 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5664 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5665 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5666 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5667 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5669 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5670 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5671 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5672 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5675 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5677 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5679 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5680 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5682 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5683 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5684 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5686 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5687 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5688 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5689 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5690 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5692 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5693 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5694 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5695 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5696 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5697 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5698 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5700 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5701 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5702 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5703 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5704 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5705 the test of how many are available.
5707 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5708 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5709 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5710 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5711 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5712 new message is started.
5714 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5715 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5717 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5718 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5720 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5721 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5722 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5725 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5726 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5727 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5728 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5729 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5730 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5731 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5733 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5734 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5735 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5736 interpreted as octal.
5738 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5741 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5742 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5743 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5744 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5745 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5746 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5748 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5749 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5750 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5751 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5753 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5754 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5755 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5756 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5758 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5759 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5762 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5763 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5765 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5767 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5768 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5769 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5770 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5772 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5773 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5774 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5775 supplied", which is not helpful.
5777 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5778 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5779 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5781 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5782 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5783 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5784 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5785 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5786 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5787 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5788 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5790 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5791 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5792 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5793 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5794 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5796 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5797 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5798 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5799 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5800 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
5801 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5803 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5804 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5805 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5807 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
5809 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5810 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5811 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5814 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5816 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5817 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5818 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5819 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5820 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5821 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5822 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5823 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5825 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5826 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5827 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5828 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5829 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5831 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5834 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5835 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5836 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5837 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5838 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5839 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5840 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5841 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5842 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5848 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5849 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5850 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5852 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5855 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5856 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5857 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5859 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5860 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5861 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5862 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5863 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5864 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
5866 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5867 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5868 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5869 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5870 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5871 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5872 the Exim test suite.
5874 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5875 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5876 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5877 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5879 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5880 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5881 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5882 specify it in this variable.
5884 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5885 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5886 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5887 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5889 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5890 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5891 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5892 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5894 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5895 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5896 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5897 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5898 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5900 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5902 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5905 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5906 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5907 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5908 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5909 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5911 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5912 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5914 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5915 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5916 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5917 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5918 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5920 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5921 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5923 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5924 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5925 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5927 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5928 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5930 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5931 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5933 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5934 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5935 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5937 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5938 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5940 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5941 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5942 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5943 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5945 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5947 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5948 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5949 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5950 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5952 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5954 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5955 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5957 25. Added .include_if_exists.
5959 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5960 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5961 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5962 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5963 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5964 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5966 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5968 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5969 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5972 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5974 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5975 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5977 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5978 550 Sender verify failed
5980 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5981 the final line of the response.
5983 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5984 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5985 all other user lookups.
5987 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5990 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5991 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5992 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5993 result into an int without checking.
5995 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5996 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5997 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
5999 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6000 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6001 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6002 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6004 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6007 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6008 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6010 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6011 to the empty sender.
6013 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6014 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6015 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6016 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6017 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6018 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6019 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6022 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6023 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6024 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6025 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6028 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6029 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6031 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6034 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6035 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6037 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6039 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6040 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6043 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6044 as soon as it is encountered.
6046 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6048 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6051 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6052 recognizes a tab character.
6054 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6055 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6056 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6057 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6059 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6061 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6064 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6066 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6068 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6069 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6072 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6073 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6074 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6075 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6076 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6078 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6079 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6081 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6082 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6083 list (.included file names were always shown).
6085 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6086 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6087 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6090 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6091 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6093 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6095 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6097 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6099 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6100 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6101 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6102 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6103 failures to open the logs.
6105 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6106 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6107 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6108 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6109 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6110 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6111 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6117 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6118 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6119 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6122 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6123 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6124 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6126 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6127 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6128 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6130 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6131 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6132 causing some misleading effects.
6134 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6135 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6136 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6138 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6139 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6140 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6141 queue-runner function directly.
6147 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6150 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6151 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6152 was always written to the default place.
6154 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6155 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6156 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6158 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6160 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6162 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6163 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6164 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6166 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6167 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6170 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6171 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6172 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6174 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6175 command line option is disabled.
6177 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6178 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6180 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6182 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6184 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6185 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6187 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6189 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6190 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6191 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6192 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6193 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6194 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6196 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6197 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6200 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6201 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6203 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6204 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6206 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6207 received was valid base64.
6209 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6210 name of the variable that was being set.
6212 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6214 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6215 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6216 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6217 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6218 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6219 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6221 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6223 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6224 nor realm was specified.
6226 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6227 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6228 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6229 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6231 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6232 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6233 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6235 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6236 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6237 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6239 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6240 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6241 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6242 some systems use these upper case variants.
6244 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6245 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6246 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6247 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6249 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6251 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6252 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6254 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6255 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6258 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6260 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6261 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6262 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6263 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6265 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6268 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6269 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6270 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6272 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6273 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6275 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6276 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6277 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6278 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6280 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6281 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6282 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6284 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6286 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6287 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6288 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6289 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6292 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6293 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6294 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6296 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6298 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6299 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6301 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6302 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6304 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6305 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6306 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6307 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6308 when emails are that large.
6315 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6316 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6318 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6319 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6320 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6322 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6323 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6324 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6326 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6327 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6328 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6329 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6330 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6332 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6333 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6334 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6335 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6336 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6339 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6340 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6341 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6342 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6343 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6344 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6345 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6346 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6347 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6348 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6349 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6350 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6351 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6352 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6354 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6355 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6358 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6359 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6360 error should be diagnosed.
6362 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6363 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6364 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6365 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6366 appeared instead of "NULL".
6368 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6369 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6370 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6371 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6372 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6373 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6376 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6377 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6378 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6384 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6385 or receiver verification errors.
6387 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6390 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6391 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6392 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6393 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6395 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6396 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6397 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6398 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6399 shouldn't happen again.
6401 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6402 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6403 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6405 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6406 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6408 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6410 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6411 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6413 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6414 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6417 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6418 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6419 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6421 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6422 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6423 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6424 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6426 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6427 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6428 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6429 to define what should happen).
6431 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6432 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6433 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6435 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6437 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6439 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6440 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6442 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
6443 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6444 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6445 structure in all cases.
6447 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6448 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6449 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6450 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6452 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6453 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6456 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6457 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6459 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6460 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6462 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6463 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6464 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6466 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6467 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6468 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6470 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6471 the book and for uniformity.
6473 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6475 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6476 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6477 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6478 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6479 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6480 non-existent command as the problem.
6482 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6483 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6484 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6486 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6488 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6489 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6490 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6492 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6493 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6494 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6495 timestamps using strftime().
6497 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6498 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6500 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6501 transport-time rewrites.
6503 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6504 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6505 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6506 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6508 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6509 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6511 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6512 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6513 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6514 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6517 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6518 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6519 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6520 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6521 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6522 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6523 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6525 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6526 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6527 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6528 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6529 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6531 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6532 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6533 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6534 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6535 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6536 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6537 remaining text gets split now.
6539 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6540 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6541 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6542 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6544 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6545 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6546 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6547 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6550 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6551 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6552 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6553 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6554 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6555 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6556 passed through if needed.
6558 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6559 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6560 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6561 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6562 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6563 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6565 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6566 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6567 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6568 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6569 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6571 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6572 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6573 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6574 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6575 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6577 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6578 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6581 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6582 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6583 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6584 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6585 mayhem of various kinds.
6587 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6588 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6589 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6590 the right test for positive values.
6592 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6593 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6594 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6595 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6596 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6597 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6598 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6599 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6600 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6601 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6604 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6607 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6608 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6611 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6612 the existing equality matching.
6614 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6615 dealing with inode numbers.
6617 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6618 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6619 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6621 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6622 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6623 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6624 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6627 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6628 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6629 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6630 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6631 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6632 relay addresses has also been removed.
6634 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6636 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6637 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6638 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6640 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6641 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6642 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6643 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6644 processing applies to CR:
6646 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6647 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6649 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6650 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6651 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6652 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6654 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6655 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6656 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6658 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6659 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6660 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6661 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6662 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6663 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6666 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6669 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6670 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6671 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6672 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6675 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6677 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6679 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6681 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6682 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6683 not considered personal.
6685 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6687 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6689 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6691 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6692 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6693 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6694 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6695 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6696 header lines, and spool format errors.
6698 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6699 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6700 for more flexibility.
6702 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6703 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6704 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6706 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6709 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6710 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6711 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6712 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6713 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6714 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6715 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6716 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6717 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6719 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6720 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6721 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6722 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6723 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6724 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6725 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6727 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6728 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6729 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6731 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6732 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6733 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6734 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6735 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6736 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6737 instead of killing the process with assert().
6739 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6740 than Unicode encoding.
6742 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6743 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6744 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6745 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6747 77. Added process_log_path.
6749 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6750 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6752 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6753 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6755 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6756 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6757 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6759 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6760 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6761 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6762 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6763 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6766 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6767 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6770 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6771 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6772 they will be used during message reception.
6778 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.