1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
37 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
38 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
39 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
41 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
43 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
44 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
47 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
48 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
49 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
51 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
53 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
55 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
56 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
57 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
59 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
60 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
61 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
63 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
64 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
66 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
67 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
70 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
71 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
72 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
73 should both provide the file and set the option.
74 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
76 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
77 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
79 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
80 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
81 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
82 Authentication-Results: header.
84 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
85 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
86 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
87 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
89 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
90 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
91 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
92 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
93 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
94 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
95 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
97 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
98 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
99 copies while it is still usable.
101 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
102 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
103 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
105 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
106 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
108 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
109 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
110 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
111 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
113 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
114 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
115 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
118 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
119 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
120 - the pipe transport command
121 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
122 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
124 - paths used by single-key lookups
125 Previously this was permitted.
127 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
128 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
129 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
130 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
132 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
133 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
134 support larger malloc requests.
136 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
137 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
138 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
139 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
141 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
142 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
143 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
144 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
147 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
148 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
149 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
150 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
151 data being length-specified.
153 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
154 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
155 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
156 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
158 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
159 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
160 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
161 not being properly tracked.
163 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
164 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
165 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
166 minute could be seen.
168 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
169 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
170 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
172 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
173 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
175 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
176 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
179 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
181 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
182 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
184 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
185 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
186 filesystem as sufficient validation.
188 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
189 argument is supplied.
191 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
192 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
193 access under Exim's current working directory.
195 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
196 Previously no event was raised.
198 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
199 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
200 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
203 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
204 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
205 the size of the signature hash.
207 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
208 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
210 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
211 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
212 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
213 dropped between messages.
215 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
216 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
217 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
218 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
220 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
221 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
222 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
223 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
224 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
225 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
226 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
227 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
228 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
230 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
231 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
232 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
234 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
235 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
242 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
243 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
245 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
246 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
249 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
252 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
254 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
256 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
257 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
259 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
260 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
261 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
262 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
263 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
264 suitably configured).
266 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
267 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
269 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
270 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
273 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
274 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
276 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
277 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
278 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
279 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
282 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
283 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
284 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
286 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
289 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
290 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
292 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
293 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
294 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
295 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
298 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
299 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
300 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
301 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
304 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
305 shared (NFS) environment.
307 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
308 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
311 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
312 on some platforms for bit 31.
314 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
315 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
316 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
317 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
318 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
319 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
320 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
321 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
323 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
325 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
326 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
328 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
329 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
332 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
333 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
336 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
337 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
338 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
341 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
342 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
343 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
345 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
346 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
347 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
348 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
349 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
351 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
354 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
355 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
356 be requested on all coneections.
358 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
359 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
361 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
363 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
364 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
365 one for these; the option was ignored.
367 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
368 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
369 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
370 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
372 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
373 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
374 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
377 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
378 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
379 error ignored was made.
381 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
383 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
384 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
385 values, to catch one form of exploit.
387 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
388 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
389 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
391 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
392 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
395 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
396 them in our smtp response.
398 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
399 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
400 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
401 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
402 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
404 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
405 link count into consideration.
407 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
408 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
410 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
411 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
412 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
415 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
417 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
419 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
421 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
422 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
423 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
424 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
426 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
428 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
429 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
432 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
433 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
434 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
436 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
437 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
438 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
440 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
441 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
442 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
443 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
444 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
445 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
446 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
447 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
449 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
450 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
451 resulted in an indefinite loop.
453 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
454 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
455 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
461 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
462 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
464 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
465 non-signal-safe functions being used.
467 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
468 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
469 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
471 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
472 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
473 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
475 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
476 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
477 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
478 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
479 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
482 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
483 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
485 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
486 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
487 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
488 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
489 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
490 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
491 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
493 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
494 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
496 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
499 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
500 Previously this would segfault.
502 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
505 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
506 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
507 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
508 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
509 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
510 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
512 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
514 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
515 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
516 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
517 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
519 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
521 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
522 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
523 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
524 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
526 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
528 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
530 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
531 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
532 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
534 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
535 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
536 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
538 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
540 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
541 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
542 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
543 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
545 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
546 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
547 promised '?' replacement.
549 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
551 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
552 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
553 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
554 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
555 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
557 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
558 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
559 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
561 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
562 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
563 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
565 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
566 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
567 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
569 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
570 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
571 hope that is portable enough.
573 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
574 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
575 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
576 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
578 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
579 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
580 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
582 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
583 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
584 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
585 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
587 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
588 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
590 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
591 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
592 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
593 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
595 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
596 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
597 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
599 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
600 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
601 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
602 the previous G, M, k.
604 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
605 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
608 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
609 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
610 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
611 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
613 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
614 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
616 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
617 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
618 off past the nul-terimation.
620 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
621 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
622 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
623 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
624 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
626 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
628 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
629 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
630 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
633 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
634 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
636 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
637 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
638 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
640 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
641 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
642 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
644 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
645 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
651 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
652 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
653 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
654 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
655 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
656 be defined in redis_servers.
658 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
659 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
661 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
662 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
663 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
664 extant use locations.
666 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
667 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
669 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
670 Previously only the last row was returned.
672 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
673 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
674 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
675 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
678 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
679 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
680 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
681 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
682 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
683 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
684 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
685 Main pool for expansions.
686 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
687 active in the testsuite.
688 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
690 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
691 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
692 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
693 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
696 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
697 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
700 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
701 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
702 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
704 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
705 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
706 ClamAV interface method is removed.
708 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
709 rows affected is given instead).
711 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
712 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
714 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
715 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
716 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
717 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
718 for all multi-message initiating connections.
720 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
721 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
722 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
724 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
725 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
726 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
727 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
730 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
731 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
732 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
735 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
737 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
738 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
740 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
741 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
742 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
744 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
745 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
746 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
749 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
750 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
752 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
753 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
754 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
756 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
757 for the build is renamed.
759 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
760 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
761 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
763 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
764 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
765 result replacing the original.
767 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
768 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
769 and the resources needed to be freed.
771 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
773 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
776 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
777 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
778 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
779 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
781 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
782 length value. Previously this would segfault.
784 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
785 newer versions of the scanner.
787 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
788 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
789 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
790 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
791 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
792 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
793 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
795 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
796 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
797 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
798 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
799 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
800 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
801 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
802 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
803 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
804 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
806 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
807 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
809 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
811 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
812 allows proper process termination in container environments.
814 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
815 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
817 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
818 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
819 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
821 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
822 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
823 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
824 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
826 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
827 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
830 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
831 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
833 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
834 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
835 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
836 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
837 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
839 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
840 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
843 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
844 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
846 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
849 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
850 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
851 "bare" representation.
853 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
854 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
855 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
856 corrupted the output.
862 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
863 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
864 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
865 pairs of long lines into single ones.
867 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
868 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
870 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
871 This permits better logging.
873 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
874 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
875 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
876 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
877 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
878 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
880 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
881 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
884 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
885 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
886 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
888 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
889 than 255 are no longer allowed.
891 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
892 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
893 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
894 client, there is no benefit for these.
895 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
896 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
897 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
900 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
901 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
903 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
904 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
905 erroneously found still-pending ones.
907 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
908 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
910 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
911 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
912 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
913 signature and again for transmission.
915 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
916 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
917 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
919 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
920 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
921 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
922 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
923 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
924 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
925 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
927 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
928 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
929 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
930 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
932 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
933 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
934 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
935 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
936 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
937 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
940 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
941 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
942 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
943 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
946 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
947 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
948 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
949 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
952 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
953 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
956 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
957 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
958 banner-time rejection.
960 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
963 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
964 is the name of a transport.
967 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
969 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
970 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
972 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
973 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
974 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
977 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
978 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
979 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
980 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
982 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
983 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
984 initial verify call returned a defer.
986 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
987 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
989 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
990 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
992 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
993 if present. Previously it was ignored.
995 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
996 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
998 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
999 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1002 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1003 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1005 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1006 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1007 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1009 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1010 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1011 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1012 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1014 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1015 and confused the parent.
1017 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1018 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1020 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1023 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1024 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1025 out-of-order delivery.
1027 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1028 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1029 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1032 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1033 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1036 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1037 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1038 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1040 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1041 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1042 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1043 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1044 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1045 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1047 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1048 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1049 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1051 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1052 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1053 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1055 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1056 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1057 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1058 though a different problem.
1064 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1065 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1067 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1069 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1070 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1072 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1073 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1075 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1076 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1077 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1078 before acknowledging the chunk.
1080 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1081 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1082 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1084 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1085 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1086 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1089 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1090 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1091 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1093 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1094 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1096 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1097 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1098 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1099 body hash calculated value.
1101 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1102 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1103 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1105 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1107 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1108 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1110 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1111 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1112 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1114 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1115 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1116 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1117 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1118 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1119 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1121 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1122 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1123 past that check, despite the cost.
1125 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1126 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1127 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1129 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1130 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1131 TLS library to consume.
1133 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1135 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1137 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1138 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1139 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1140 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1141 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1142 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1143 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1145 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1147 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1149 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1150 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1151 should be warning-free.
1153 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1155 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1156 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1158 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1159 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1160 general solution here.
1162 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1163 already-broken messages in the queue.
1165 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1167 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1173 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1174 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1176 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1177 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1178 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1180 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1181 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1182 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1183 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1184 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1185 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1186 if one fails this test.
1187 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1188 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1190 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1191 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1193 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1194 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1196 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1197 in rewrites and routers.
1199 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1200 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1202 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1203 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1205 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1207 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1210 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1211 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1212 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1213 connection after a verify cache hit.
1214 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1216 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1217 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1219 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1220 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1221 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1222 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1223 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1225 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1226 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1228 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1229 Previously they were not counted.
1231 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1232 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1233 that needed the lookup.
1235 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1236 distinguished as "(=".
1238 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1239 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1241 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1243 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1244 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1246 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1247 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1249 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1250 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1253 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1254 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1255 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1256 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1258 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1260 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1261 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1262 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1264 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1265 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1266 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1269 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1270 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1271 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1274 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1275 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1276 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1278 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1279 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1282 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1284 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1285 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1287 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1288 are not in the system include path.
1290 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1291 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1292 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1293 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1295 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1296 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1297 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1299 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1301 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1302 an incoming connection.
1304 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1307 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1308 fallback to "prime256v1".
1310 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1311 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1317 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1318 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1319 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1320 client dropping the TLS connection.
1322 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1323 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1325 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1326 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1327 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1328 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1331 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1332 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1333 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1334 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1335 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1336 check on the next write.
1338 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1339 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1340 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1341 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1342 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1344 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1345 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1347 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1348 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1349 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1351 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1352 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1353 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1354 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1356 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1357 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1359 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1360 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1362 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1363 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1364 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1367 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1369 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1371 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1373 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1374 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1376 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1377 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1379 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1381 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1382 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1384 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1386 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1387 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1389 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1391 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1392 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1393 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1394 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1395 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1396 they will retry in-clear.
1397 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1398 at installation time.
1400 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1401 with the $config_file variable.
1403 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1404 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1405 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1406 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1407 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1409 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1410 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1411 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1412 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1413 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1415 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1417 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1418 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1419 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1420 list order is no longer honoured.
1422 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1423 for DKIM processing.
1425 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1426 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1428 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1429 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1430 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1431 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1433 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1434 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1436 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1437 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1439 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1440 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1442 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1444 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1445 cached by the daemon.
1447 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1448 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1450 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1451 keys are given for lookup.
1453 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1454 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1455 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1456 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1458 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1459 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1460 server-side so match that on older versions.
1462 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1463 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1464 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1466 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1467 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1469 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1470 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1471 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1472 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1473 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1474 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1475 initial truncated version.
1477 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1479 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1481 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1482 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1484 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1486 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1488 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1489 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1492 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1493 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1496 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1497 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1499 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1500 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1503 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1504 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1505 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1507 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1508 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1509 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1510 extraction. Accept either.
1516 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1519 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1521 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1524 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1525 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1526 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1527 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1529 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1530 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1531 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1533 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1534 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1535 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1538 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1541 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1542 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1543 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1544 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1545 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1547 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1548 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1549 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1551 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1553 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1554 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1556 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1557 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1559 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1562 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1563 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1565 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1566 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1567 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1569 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1570 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1571 specify a port-range.
1573 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1574 timeout value per server.
1576 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1577 now have the list separator specified.
1579 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1582 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1585 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1587 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1588 rather than the verbs used.
1590 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1591 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1593 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1595 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1596 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1598 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1599 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1601 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1602 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1604 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1606 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1608 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1609 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1610 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1611 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1613 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1615 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1616 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1618 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1619 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1621 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1623 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1625 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1627 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1628 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1630 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1631 added for tls authenticator.
1633 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1639 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1640 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1641 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1642 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1643 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1644 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1645 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1647 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1648 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1649 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1650 function when detected.
1652 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1653 cause callback expansion.
1655 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1656 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1657 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1658 instead of bool when processing it.
1660 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1661 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1663 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1665 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1667 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1669 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1670 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1672 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1673 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1674 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1675 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1676 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1677 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1679 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1680 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1683 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1684 version 3.3.6 or later.
1686 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1687 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1688 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1689 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1690 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1691 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1694 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1695 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1697 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1698 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1699 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1702 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1703 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1704 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1706 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1707 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1709 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1710 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1713 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1715 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1716 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1718 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1719 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1722 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1724 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1727 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1728 output list separator was used.
1733 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1734 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1737 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1738 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1740 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1742 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1743 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1749 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1751 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1752 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1753 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1754 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1755 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1756 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1758 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1759 utilities have not been installed.
1761 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1762 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1764 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1765 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1767 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1768 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1769 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1770 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1772 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1774 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1775 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1777 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1780 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1782 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1783 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1784 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1786 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1787 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1788 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1789 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1790 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1791 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1793 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1795 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1796 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1798 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1801 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1803 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1805 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1806 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1808 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1809 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1811 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1813 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1815 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1816 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1818 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1819 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1820 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1822 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1823 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1824 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1827 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1829 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1830 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1833 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1834 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1837 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1838 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1840 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1841 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1843 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1845 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1846 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1847 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1849 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1850 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1852 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1853 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1856 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1857 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1858 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1860 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1862 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1863 Christian Aistleitner.
1865 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1867 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1868 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1870 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1871 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1873 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1874 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1876 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1877 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1879 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1880 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1882 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1883 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1884 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1886 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1888 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1889 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1892 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1894 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1895 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1902 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1904 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1905 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1907 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1910 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1911 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1914 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1916 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1917 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1918 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1919 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1920 using channel bindings instead).
1922 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1923 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1924 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1925 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1926 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1929 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1931 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1933 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1934 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1936 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1937 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1938 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1940 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1942 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1944 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1945 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1947 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1949 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1951 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1953 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1954 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1956 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1958 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1959 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1962 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1963 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1965 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1966 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1969 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1971 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1973 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1974 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1976 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1979 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1980 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1982 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1983 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1985 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1987 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1989 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1992 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1995 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1997 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1998 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1999 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2000 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2002 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2004 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2005 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2006 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2007 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2010 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2011 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2012 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2014 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2015 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2016 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2017 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2019 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2020 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2021 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2022 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2023 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2024 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2025 delivery, as in LMTP.
2027 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2028 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2030 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2032 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2036 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2037 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2038 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2039 username as equal to the username.
2041 This change corrects that bug.
2043 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2044 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2045 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2047 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2049 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2050 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2051 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2052 NULL dereference and crash.
2054 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2056 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2057 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2058 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2060 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2062 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2063 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2064 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2065 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2066 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2067 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2068 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2069 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2070 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2071 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2072 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2074 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2075 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2077 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2078 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2081 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2082 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2083 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2084 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2085 an empty string is now equivalent.
2087 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2088 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2089 not performing validation itself.
2091 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2092 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2094 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2097 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2099 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2100 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2101 other false fix of the same issue.
2102 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2105 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2106 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2108 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2109 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2110 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2112 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2113 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2114 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2116 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2118 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2120 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2121 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2123 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2126 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2127 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2128 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2129 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2130 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2132 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2133 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2135 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2136 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2139 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2140 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2141 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2142 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2144 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2146 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2147 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2148 from multiple comments on this bug.
2150 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2152 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2153 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2156 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2157 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2159 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2160 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2166 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2168 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2174 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2175 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2176 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2178 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2180 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2183 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2185 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2187 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2189 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2190 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2192 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2193 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2195 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2196 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2198 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2199 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2200 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2202 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2204 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2205 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2207 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2209 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2211 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2212 non-compliant senders.
2213 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2215 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2216 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2217 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2219 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2220 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2221 in spool file corruption.
2223 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2224 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2225 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2228 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2229 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2230 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2232 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2233 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2235 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2237 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2239 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2241 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2242 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2243 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2245 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2246 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2247 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2248 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2250 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2251 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2253 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2254 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2255 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2256 resolver implementation change.
2258 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2259 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2261 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2263 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2265 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2266 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2268 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2269 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2271 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2272 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2274 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2275 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2276 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2277 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2278 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2280 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2282 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2283 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2284 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2286 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2288 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2289 read-only, out of scope).
2290 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2292 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2293 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2294 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2295 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2297 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2299 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2300 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2301 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2302 real issues in debug logging.
2304 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2305 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2307 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2308 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2309 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2311 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2312 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2313 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2316 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2317 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2319 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2320 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2321 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2322 needs to override this, it can.
2324 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2325 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2326 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2328 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2329 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2330 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2331 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2333 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2339 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2340 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2342 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2344 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2347 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2348 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2350 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2351 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2352 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2354 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2355 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2356 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2357 not safe for signals.
2359 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2360 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2361 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2362 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2365 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2367 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2368 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2369 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2370 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2371 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2373 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2374 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2375 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2376 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2377 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2378 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2380 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2381 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2382 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2383 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2385 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2386 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2387 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2388 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2390 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2391 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2392 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2393 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2394 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2395 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2396 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2397 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2398 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2400 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2401 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2402 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2403 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2405 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2406 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2407 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2408 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2409 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2410 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2411 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2412 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2413 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2414 details in the main documentation.
2416 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2418 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2420 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2421 repository when doing development or release builds.
2423 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2424 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2426 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2427 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2430 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2432 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2433 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2435 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2436 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2438 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2439 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2441 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2442 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2444 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2445 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2447 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2449 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2452 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2453 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2454 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2456 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2458 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2460 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2461 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2467 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2469 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2470 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2472 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2474 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2476 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2479 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2480 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2482 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2483 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2485 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2486 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2488 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2491 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2492 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2494 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2495 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2496 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2497 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2499 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2500 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2506 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2509 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2510 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2511 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2513 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2514 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2516 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2517 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2518 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2520 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2521 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2523 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2524 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2526 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2527 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2529 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2530 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2532 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2533 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2535 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2538 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2539 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2541 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2542 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2544 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2545 SQL string expansion failure details.
2546 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2548 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2549 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2551 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2552 extern declarations in function scope.
2553 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2555 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2556 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2557 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2560 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2561 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2563 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2564 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2566 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2567 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2569 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2570 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2572 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2573 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2576 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2578 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2580 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2581 Patch by Simon Arlott
2583 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2584 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2590 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2591 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2593 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2594 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2596 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2598 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2599 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2600 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2602 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2603 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2604 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2606 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2607 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2608 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2609 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2611 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2612 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2613 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2614 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2616 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2617 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2618 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2621 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2624 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2625 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2626 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2627 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2628 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2634 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2635 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2636 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2638 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2639 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2641 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2643 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2645 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2647 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2649 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2651 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2652 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2653 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2654 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2656 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2657 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2658 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2659 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2660 more caution in buffer sizes.
2662 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2664 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2666 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2668 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2670 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2672 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2674 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2676 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2677 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2678 ignore trailing whitespace.
2680 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2682 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2685 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2686 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2688 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2689 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2690 Notification from John Horne.
2692 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2695 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2696 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2699 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2702 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2703 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2704 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2706 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2707 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2708 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2711 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2712 option (effectively making it always true).
2714 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2715 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2717 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2718 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2720 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2721 run-time user, instead of root.
2723 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2724 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2726 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2727 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2730 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2731 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2732 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2734 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2736 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2742 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2743 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2746 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2747 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2750 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2751 Patch from Alain Williams
2753 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2755 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2756 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2758 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2759 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2761 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2763 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2765 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2766 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2768 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2770 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2772 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2773 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2774 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2776 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2777 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2779 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2780 Patch by Simon Arlott
2782 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2783 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2789 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2791 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2793 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2795 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2797 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2803 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2804 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2806 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2807 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2810 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2811 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2812 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2814 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2815 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2817 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2818 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2819 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2820 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2822 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2823 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2824 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2826 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2828 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2830 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2831 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2833 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2835 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2836 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2837 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2838 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2840 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2841 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2843 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2845 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2847 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2848 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2850 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2851 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2853 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2854 that they are available at delivery time.
2856 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2858 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2859 incoming_port log selectors.
2861 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2862 setting expands to an empty string.
2864 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2865 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2867 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2868 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2870 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2871 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2873 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2874 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2876 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2877 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2879 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2880 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2882 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2884 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2885 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2887 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2888 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2890 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2892 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2893 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2895 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2897 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2899 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2902 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2903 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2905 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2906 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2908 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2909 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2911 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2912 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2914 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2915 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2917 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2918 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2920 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2921 plus update to original patch.
2923 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2925 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2926 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2928 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2930 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2932 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2934 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2936 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2937 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2939 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2940 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2942 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2943 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2945 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2946 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2948 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2950 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2952 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2954 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2960 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2961 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2962 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2964 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2965 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2966 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2967 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2968 build errors in sieve.c.
2970 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2971 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2972 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2974 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2976 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2978 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2980 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2986 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2988 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2989 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2990 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2991 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2992 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2993 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2994 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2995 for iplsearch lookups.
2997 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2998 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2999 previously such lookups could never work.
3001 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3002 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3003 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3005 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3008 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3009 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3010 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3011 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3012 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3013 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3015 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3016 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3018 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3019 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3020 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3021 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3022 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3023 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3025 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3028 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3030 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3031 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3034 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3035 by clients under certain conditions.
3037 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3038 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3040 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3042 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3043 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3045 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3047 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3049 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3051 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3052 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3054 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3056 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3057 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3059 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3061 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3063 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3064 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3065 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3066 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3068 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3069 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3070 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3072 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3073 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3075 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3077 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3079 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3081 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3082 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3083 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3089 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3090 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3093 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3094 issue a MAIL command.
3096 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3098 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3100 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3101 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3102 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3103 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3104 item. This has been fixed.
3106 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3107 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3109 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3110 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3112 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3113 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3114 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3116 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3118 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3119 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3120 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3121 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3122 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3124 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3125 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3126 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3128 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3129 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3130 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3131 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3133 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3135 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3137 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3138 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3139 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3140 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3141 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3143 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3145 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3146 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3147 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3150 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3152 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3154 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3156 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3158 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3160 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3161 no_callout_flush is set.
3163 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3164 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3165 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3168 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3170 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3171 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3172 other ACL rejections are.
3174 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3175 with slight modification.
3177 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3178 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3180 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3181 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3184 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3185 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3187 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3189 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3190 expansion side effects.
3192 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3193 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3194 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3197 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3198 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3199 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3201 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3202 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3203 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3204 were accidentally chopped off.
3206 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3207 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3208 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3209 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3210 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3211 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3212 pipelining has not been advertised.
3214 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3216 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3217 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3218 This has been fixed.
3220 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3221 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3222 reported on Solaris.
3224 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3225 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3226 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3227 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3228 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3229 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3230 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3232 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3235 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3237 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3239 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3240 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3241 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3242 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3243 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3244 criteria to be more general.
3246 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3247 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3248 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3249 host_all_ignored option.
3251 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3252 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3253 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3254 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3255 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3256 is what is supposed to happen).
3258 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3259 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3260 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3261 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3262 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3265 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3266 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3267 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3268 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3269 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3270 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3273 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3275 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3276 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3278 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3279 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3281 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3283 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3285 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3286 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3287 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3288 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3289 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3290 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3291 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3292 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3293 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3294 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3295 least in a lot of common cases.
3297 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3298 advertised in response to EHLO.
3304 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3305 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3307 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3308 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3310 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3311 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3312 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3314 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3315 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3316 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3317 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3318 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3324 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3325 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3328 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3329 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3330 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3332 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3333 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3334 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3335 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3336 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3337 rather than extend the field.
3343 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3344 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3345 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3346 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3349 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3350 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3351 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3353 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3354 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3355 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3357 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3358 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3359 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3362 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3363 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3364 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3365 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3366 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3367 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3368 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3369 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3370 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3371 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3372 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3374 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3377 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3378 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3379 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3380 ignores EPIPE as well.
3382 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3383 (quoted-printable decoding).
3385 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3386 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3388 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3390 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3392 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3394 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3395 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3397 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3400 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3401 miscellaneous code fixes
3403 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3406 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3407 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3408 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3409 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3410 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3411 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3412 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3413 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3415 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3416 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3417 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3418 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3420 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3421 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3422 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3423 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3424 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3425 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3426 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3427 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3428 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3430 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3433 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3434 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3435 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3436 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3437 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3438 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3439 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3440 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3442 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3443 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3446 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3447 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3448 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3449 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3450 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3451 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3452 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3453 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3454 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3455 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3456 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3457 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3458 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3460 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3461 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3462 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3463 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3464 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3465 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3466 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3468 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3469 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3470 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3471 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3472 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3473 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3474 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3475 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3476 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3477 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3479 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3480 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3481 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3482 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3483 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3485 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3486 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3487 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3488 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3489 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3490 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3491 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3493 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3494 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3495 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3496 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3497 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3498 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3501 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3502 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3503 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3506 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3507 if any retry times were supplied.
3509 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3510 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3511 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3513 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3515 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3517 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3518 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3519 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3520 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3521 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3522 before) are ignored.
3524 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3525 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3527 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3528 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3529 committing the later change.]
3531 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3532 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3533 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3534 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3535 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3536 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3537 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3538 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3539 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3541 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3542 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3543 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3544 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3545 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3546 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3547 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3548 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3549 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3551 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3552 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3553 hammering the server.
3555 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3556 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3558 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3560 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3561 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3562 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3564 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3565 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3566 one case where this was not true.
3568 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3569 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3570 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3571 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3574 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3575 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3576 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3577 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3578 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3579 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3580 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3581 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3582 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3585 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3586 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3587 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3588 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3590 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3591 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3593 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3594 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3595 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3597 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3599 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3601 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3603 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3604 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3605 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3606 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3608 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3609 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3611 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3612 be meaningful with "accept".
3614 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3615 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3617 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3618 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3619 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3621 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3622 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3623 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3624 there is data to show.
3625 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3627 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3628 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3629 as well as the number of messages.
3631 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3632 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3633 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3635 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3636 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3637 have a flag are now skipped.
3639 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3640 Added the -emptyok flag.
3642 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3643 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3645 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3646 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3647 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3649 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3652 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3653 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3655 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3657 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3658 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3660 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3662 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3663 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3664 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3665 contravention of the specifications.
3667 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3668 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3669 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3671 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3672 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3673 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3675 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3677 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3678 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3679 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3680 some point in the past.
3682 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3683 transport during callout processing was broken.
3685 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3686 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3688 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3689 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3691 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3692 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3694 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3700 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3701 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3703 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3704 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3705 there is data to show.
3706 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3708 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3709 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3711 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3712 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3714 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3715 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3717 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3718 submissions from trusted users.
3720 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3721 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3723 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3724 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3725 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3726 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3727 there is now a framework to start from.
3729 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3730 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3731 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3733 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3735 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3737 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3739 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3740 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3741 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3743 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3746 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3747 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3748 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3750 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3751 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3752 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3755 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3756 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3757 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3758 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3759 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3761 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3762 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3764 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3766 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3767 operations in malware.c.
3769 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3772 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3773 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3774 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3777 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3778 statements to "add_header".
3780 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3781 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3783 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3784 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3787 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3791 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3792 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3793 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3796 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3797 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3799 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3800 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3802 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3803 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3804 any possible encoding problems.
3806 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3807 but not after initializing Perl.
3809 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3810 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3811 apparently, which is not desirable.
3813 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3816 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3819 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3821 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3822 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3823 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3824 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3826 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3827 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3828 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3830 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3831 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3832 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3835 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3836 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3837 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3838 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3839 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3845 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3846 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3848 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3851 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3852 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3853 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3854 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3855 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3856 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3857 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3858 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3861 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3863 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3864 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3865 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3867 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3868 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3869 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3872 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3873 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3875 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3876 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3877 option (which defaults to 0600).
3879 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3881 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3882 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3883 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3884 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3885 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3886 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3887 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3889 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3895 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3896 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3897 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3898 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3899 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3900 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3903 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3904 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3906 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3908 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3909 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3910 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3911 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3912 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3915 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3916 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3918 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3919 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3920 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3921 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3922 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3924 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3925 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3926 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3927 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3929 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3930 be the same on different OS.
3932 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3935 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3936 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3938 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3941 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3942 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3943 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3944 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3945 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3946 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3949 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3950 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3951 when Exim was called.
3953 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3954 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3956 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3957 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3958 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3959 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3961 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3962 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3963 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3964 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3967 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3968 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3969 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3971 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3972 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3973 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3975 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3978 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3979 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3980 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3981 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3982 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3983 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3984 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3985 values from the SRV records were lost.
3987 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3988 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3989 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3991 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3992 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3993 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3995 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3996 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3997 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3998 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3999 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4000 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4001 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4002 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4003 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4004 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4006 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4007 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4008 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4010 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4011 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4013 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4014 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4015 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4016 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4019 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4020 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4021 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4023 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4024 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4025 PH/23 above applies.
4027 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4028 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4029 (for which there is an explicit test).
4031 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4033 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4034 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4035 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4036 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4037 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4039 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4040 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4041 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4042 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4044 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4045 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4046 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4048 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4050 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4052 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4053 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4054 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4056 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4057 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4058 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4059 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4060 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4062 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4063 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4064 the message gets confusing).
4066 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4067 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4068 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4069 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4071 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4072 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4073 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4074 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4077 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4078 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4079 the different processes.
4081 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4083 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4085 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4086 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4088 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4089 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4091 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4092 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4093 messages matching specified criteria.
4095 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4097 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4098 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4100 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4101 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4102 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4103 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4104 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4105 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4106 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4107 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4108 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4109 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4111 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4112 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4113 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4115 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4117 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4118 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4119 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4120 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4121 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4122 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4123 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4126 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4127 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4129 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4131 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4133 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4135 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4136 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4137 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4138 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4139 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4140 size of the count of files.
4142 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4144 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4147 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4148 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4149 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4150 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4152 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4153 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4154 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4156 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4157 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4158 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4159 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4160 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4162 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4163 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4165 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4166 will now be deprecated.
4168 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4170 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4171 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4172 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4174 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4175 with very large, slow to parse queues
4177 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4179 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4181 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4182 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4183 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4186 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4187 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4188 Sieve code now uses this.
4190 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4191 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4193 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4194 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4196 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4198 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4199 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4200 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4201 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4202 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4204 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4205 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4206 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4207 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4209 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4211 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4213 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4214 is preferred over IPv4.
4216 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4217 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4218 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4219 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4220 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4221 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4222 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4224 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4225 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4226 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4228 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4230 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4231 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4232 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4233 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4234 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4235 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4236 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4237 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4238 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4239 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4240 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4242 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4243 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4244 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4250 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4252 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4253 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4255 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4256 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4257 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4259 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4261 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4264 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4267 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4268 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4269 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4272 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4273 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4275 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4276 inside the third argument.
4278 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4279 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4282 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4283 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4285 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4286 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4288 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4290 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4291 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4294 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4296 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4297 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4298 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4299 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4300 identical. For example:
4302 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4304 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4305 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4306 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4308 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4309 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4310 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4311 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4313 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4314 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4315 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4318 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4320 o fixes some comments
4321 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4322 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4323 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4324 and documents the missing references header update
4328 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4329 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4332 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4333 Electronic Mail") by including:
4335 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4337 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4338 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4339 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4340 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4341 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4343 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4345 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4347 The auto-replied keyword:
4349 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4350 message by an automatic process,
4352 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4354 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4355 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4357 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4358 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4361 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4362 to the default Received: header definition.
4364 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4366 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4367 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4368 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4370 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4371 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4372 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4374 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4375 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4376 and treats the condition as false.
4378 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4380 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4381 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4382 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4383 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4384 not changing the active code.
4386 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4387 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4389 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4390 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4392 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4395 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4396 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4397 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4398 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4399 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4400 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4401 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4402 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4403 the text comparison.
4405 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4406 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4407 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4408 The same fix has been applied.
4414 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4415 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4418 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4419 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4421 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4423 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4424 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4425 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4426 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4427 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4429 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4430 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4431 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4432 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4435 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4443 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4444 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4446 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4448 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4450 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4451 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4452 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4454 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4455 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4456 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4458 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4459 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4462 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4463 ${stat: expansion item.
4465 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4466 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4468 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4469 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4472 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4474 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4477 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4478 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4480 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4482 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4483 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4484 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4485 the end of the subprocess.
4487 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4488 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4489 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4490 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4491 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4493 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4495 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4497 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4498 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4500 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4502 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4504 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4505 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4508 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4510 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4511 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4512 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4514 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4515 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4517 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4518 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4520 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4521 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4523 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4524 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4526 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4527 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4528 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4529 contributed by a Radius user.
4531 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4532 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4534 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4535 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4537 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4540 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4541 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4544 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4545 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4546 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4547 header lines when this was not necessary.
4549 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4551 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4552 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4553 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4556 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4559 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4560 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4561 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4562 return code was incorrect.
4564 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4566 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4568 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4570 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4572 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4573 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4574 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4575 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4576 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4579 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4581 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4582 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4583 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4584 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4585 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4586 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4587 which is clearly wrong.
4589 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4591 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4592 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4593 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4596 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4597 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4599 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4601 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4602 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4604 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4605 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4607 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4608 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4610 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4611 recipients, not senders.
4613 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4614 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4616 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4618 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4620 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4621 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4622 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4623 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4625 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4627 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4628 clock is set back in time.
4630 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4631 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4633 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4634 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4636 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4637 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4640 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4641 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4644 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4647 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4649 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4650 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4651 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4653 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4654 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4655 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4656 helo verification defer as a failure.
4658 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4659 actual error message.
4665 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4667 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4668 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4669 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4670 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4672 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4674 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4675 can still be requested.
4677 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4678 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4679 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4680 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4682 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4683 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4684 circumstances, but probably never did.
4686 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4687 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4688 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4691 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4693 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4694 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4696 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4698 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4700 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4701 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4702 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4703 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4704 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4705 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4707 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4708 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4709 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4710 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4711 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4712 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4714 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4715 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4717 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4718 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4720 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4721 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4723 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4725 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4727 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4729 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4731 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4733 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4735 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4737 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4738 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4739 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4741 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4742 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4743 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4744 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4746 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4747 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4748 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4750 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4751 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4752 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4753 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4755 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4756 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4759 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4760 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4761 should work with maildirs and everything.
4763 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4764 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4766 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4769 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4770 function for BDB 4.3.
4772 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4774 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4775 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4778 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4779 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4780 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4781 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4782 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4783 formatting function string_vformat().
4785 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4786 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4787 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4788 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4789 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4790 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4791 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4792 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4794 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4795 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4798 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4799 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4801 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4802 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4803 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4804 test. It is now used for both.
4806 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4807 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4808 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4809 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4810 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4811 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4813 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4814 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4815 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4818 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4819 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4820 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4822 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4823 experimental DomainKeys support:
4825 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4826 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4827 the control was given.
4829 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4831 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4833 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4835 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4836 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4837 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4840 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4841 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4842 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4843 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4844 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4845 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4848 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4849 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4850 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4851 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4852 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4853 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4855 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4856 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4857 do -d+all out of habit.
4859 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4860 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4863 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4864 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4865 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4866 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4867 record types that Exim uses.
4869 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4870 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4871 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4872 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4873 non-existent file that was broken.
4875 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4876 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4878 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4879 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4880 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4882 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4884 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4885 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4886 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4887 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4888 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4891 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4892 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4893 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4894 at a slight CPU cost.
4896 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4897 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4899 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4902 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4904 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4905 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4911 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4912 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4914 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4916 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4918 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4919 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4921 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4922 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4923 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4924 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4925 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4926 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4929 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4930 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4931 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4932 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4935 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4936 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4937 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4938 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4939 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4940 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4941 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4944 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4945 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4947 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4948 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4949 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4950 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4951 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4952 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4954 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4955 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4956 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4957 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4959 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4962 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4963 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4965 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4966 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4967 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4968 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4971 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4973 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4974 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4976 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4977 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4978 to what was transported.)
4980 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4982 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4983 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4984 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4985 spamd_address settings.
4987 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4988 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4989 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4990 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4991 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4993 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4995 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4996 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4997 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4998 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4999 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5001 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5002 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5004 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5005 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5006 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5007 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5008 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5009 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5010 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5013 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5014 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5015 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5016 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5017 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5018 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5019 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5022 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5024 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5025 driver and ACL definitions.
5027 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5028 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5030 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5031 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5032 understands it better than I do:
5034 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5035 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5037 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5038 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5039 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5040 => three warnings about OTP not working
5041 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5043 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5044 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5045 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5046 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5048 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5049 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5051 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5052 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5053 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5055 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5056 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5059 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5060 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5063 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5064 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5065 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5067 warn !verify = sender
5068 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5070 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5071 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5073 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5075 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5076 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5078 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5079 nomenclature these days.)
5081 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5082 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5084 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5085 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5086 . First host does not offer TLS;
5087 . First host accepts first address;
5088 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5089 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5090 . Second host accepts second address.
5091 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5092 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5095 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5096 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5097 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5098 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5099 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5101 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5102 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5104 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5105 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5107 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5108 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5109 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5111 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5112 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5115 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5117 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5118 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5119 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5120 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5121 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5122 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5123 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5125 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5126 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5127 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5128 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5129 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5131 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5132 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5135 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5136 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5137 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5138 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5139 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5140 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5142 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5144 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5145 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5146 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5147 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5148 printable escape sequences.
5150 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5151 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5154 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5155 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5158 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5159 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5160 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5161 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5162 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5164 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5165 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5166 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5168 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5170 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5171 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5174 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5175 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5176 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5177 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5178 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5179 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5180 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5181 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5182 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5185 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5186 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5187 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5188 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5192 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5193 ----------------------------------------
5195 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5196 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5197 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5198 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5199 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5200 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5203 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5204 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5205 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5206 historical information.
5212 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5214 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5215 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5217 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5218 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5221 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5222 filter fails to execute.
5224 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5225 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5226 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5227 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5228 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5230 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5232 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5233 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5234 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5235 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5237 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5238 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5239 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5240 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5241 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5243 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5245 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5247 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5248 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5249 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5250 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5252 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5253 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5254 sender verification.
5256 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5257 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5259 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5261 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5264 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5265 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5267 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5268 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5270 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5271 information about exactly what failed.
5273 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5275 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5276 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5277 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5279 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5280 It is now set to "smtps".
5282 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5283 ignore_target_hosts.
5285 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5286 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5287 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5288 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5291 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5292 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5293 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5295 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5296 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5297 wake it up if nothing else does.
5299 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5300 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5301 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5304 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5305 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5307 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5309 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5310 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5311 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5312 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5313 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5314 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5315 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5316 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5318 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5319 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5320 than one IP address.
5322 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5323 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5324 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5325 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5327 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5328 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5329 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5330 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5331 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5334 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5335 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5336 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5337 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5339 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5340 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5343 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5344 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5345 $sender_host_address.
5347 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5348 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5349 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5350 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5351 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5354 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5356 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5357 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5359 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5360 just the host names, not the priorities.
5362 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5363 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5364 controlled by a keyword.
5366 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5367 multiple records are returned.
5369 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5370 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5373 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5375 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5376 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5378 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5379 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5380 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5382 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5384 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5386 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5388 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5389 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5390 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5391 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5392 because the tests only now provoked it.
5394 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5395 (this can affect the format of dates).
5397 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5398 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5399 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5400 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5402 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5404 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5405 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5406 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5407 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5409 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5410 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5411 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5413 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5416 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5417 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5418 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5419 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5420 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5421 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5424 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5425 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5426 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5429 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5430 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5431 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5433 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5434 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5435 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5436 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5437 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5438 so I produce this patch..."
5440 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5441 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5444 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5445 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5446 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5447 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5450 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5452 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5453 long debug lines gets shown.
5455 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5456 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5458 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5460 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5461 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5462 of $primary_hostname.
5464 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5465 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5466 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5467 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5468 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5469 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5470 by change 4.50/55 above.
5472 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5473 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5474 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5475 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5476 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5477 running as the user.
5480 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5481 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5482 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5485 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5486 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5488 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5489 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5490 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5491 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5492 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5494 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5495 This has been fixed.
5497 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5498 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5499 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5500 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5503 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5505 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5506 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5507 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5508 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5510 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5511 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5513 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5514 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5515 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5517 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5518 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5519 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5522 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5523 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5524 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5526 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5527 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5528 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5529 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5531 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5532 during host lookups.
5534 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5535 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5537 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5539 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5540 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5541 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5542 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5543 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5546 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5547 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5549 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5550 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5551 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5553 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5555 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5556 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5557 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5558 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5559 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5560 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5563 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5564 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5565 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5566 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5567 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5569 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5572 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5574 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5575 "vacation" handling.
5577 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5578 OS variants using glibc.
5580 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5583 ----------------------------------------------------
5584 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5585 ----------------------------------------------------
5591 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5592 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5595 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5596 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5599 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5600 filter fails to execute.
5602 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5603 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5604 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5605 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5606 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5608 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5609 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5610 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5611 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5613 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5614 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5615 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5616 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5617 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5619 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5621 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5622 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5623 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5624 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5626 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5627 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5628 sender verification.
5630 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5631 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5633 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5634 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5636 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5637 ignore_target_hosts.
5639 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5640 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5641 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5642 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5645 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5646 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5647 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5649 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5650 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5651 wake it up if nothing else does.
5653 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5654 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5655 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5658 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5659 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5661 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5663 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5664 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5667 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5668 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5671 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5672 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5673 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5674 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5675 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5678 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5679 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5682 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5683 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5684 $sender_host_address.
5686 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5688 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5689 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5690 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5692 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5695 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5696 (this can affect the format of dates).
5698 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5699 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5700 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5701 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5703 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5704 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5705 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5707 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5708 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5709 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5710 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5712 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5713 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5714 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5716 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5719 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5720 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5721 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5722 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5723 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5724 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5727 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5728 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5729 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5730 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5733 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5734 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5735 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5736 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5737 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5738 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5739 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5741 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5742 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5743 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5744 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5745 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5746 running as the user.
5749 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5750 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5751 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5754 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5755 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5756 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5757 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5758 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5760 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5761 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5762 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5763 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5766 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5767 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5768 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5769 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5770 because the tests only now provoked it.
5776 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5777 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5778 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5779 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5780 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5781 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5782 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5784 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5785 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5788 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5790 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5792 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5793 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5796 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5797 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5798 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5799 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5800 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5802 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5803 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5805 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5807 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5809 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5812 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5813 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5815 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5816 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5817 affecting debugging statements).
5819 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5821 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5822 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5823 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5824 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5825 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5826 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5827 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5828 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5829 after the received time, and all would be well.
5831 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5832 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5833 condition in an expansion string.
5835 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5837 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5838 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5839 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5840 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5841 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5842 job under whatever limits there are.
5844 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5846 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5849 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5850 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5851 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5852 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5855 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5856 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5857 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5858 binary data in such strings.
5860 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5862 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5863 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5864 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5865 failure, which is pointless.
5867 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5869 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5871 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5872 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5873 Sender: header lines.
5875 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5876 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5877 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5879 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5880 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5881 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5882 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5883 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5886 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5887 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5888 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5889 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5890 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5892 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5893 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5894 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5897 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5898 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5900 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5901 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5903 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5905 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5907 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5909 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5912 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5914 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5916 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5917 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5918 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5919 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5921 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5922 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5928 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5929 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5930 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5932 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5933 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5934 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5935 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5936 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5937 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5939 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5940 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5941 verification failure".
5943 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5944 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5945 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5946 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5948 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5949 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5950 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5951 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5952 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5953 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5954 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5955 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5956 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5957 treated as a timeout.
5959 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5960 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5961 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5962 not set for Exim filters).
5964 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5965 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5966 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5968 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5970 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5971 try to make them clearer.
5973 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5974 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5976 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5978 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5980 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5981 only the Cygwin environment.
5983 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5984 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5985 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5986 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5987 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5989 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5990 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5991 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5992 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5993 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5994 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5995 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5997 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5998 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6000 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6002 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6003 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6004 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6006 To: susanne@some.where
6008 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6009 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6010 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6011 of addresses in From: header lines).
6013 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6014 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6015 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6017 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6018 treated as non-personal.
6020 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6021 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6023 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6025 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6027 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6028 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6029 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6031 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6032 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6034 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6035 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6036 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6037 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6038 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6039 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6041 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6042 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6043 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6044 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6045 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6046 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6047 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6048 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6050 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6052 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6053 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6055 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6056 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6057 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6059 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6060 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6062 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6063 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6064 rather than long int.
6066 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6068 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6074 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6075 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6076 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6077 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6078 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6079 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6085 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6086 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6088 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6089 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6090 socklen_t is defined.
6092 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6095 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6098 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6099 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6100 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6101 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6102 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6104 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6105 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6106 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6107 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6109 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6110 of flapping under certain conditions.
6112 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6113 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6114 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6116 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6118 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6120 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6121 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6122 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6123 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6125 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6126 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6127 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6128 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6129 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6130 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6131 preserved with the message after it was received.
6133 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6134 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6135 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6136 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6137 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6138 test suite worked just fine.
6140 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6141 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6142 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6144 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6145 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6148 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6149 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6150 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6151 does not fully solve it.
6153 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6154 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6155 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6156 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6157 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6159 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6160 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6161 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6163 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6164 string, for example:
6166 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6168 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6169 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6170 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6171 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6172 the routers could not see them.
6174 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6175 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6177 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6178 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6181 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6182 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6183 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6184 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6185 that needed quoting.
6187 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6188 was not being matched caselessly.
6190 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6193 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6194 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6195 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6196 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6197 when use_sender is false.
6199 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6201 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6203 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6205 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6206 the configuration file.
6208 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6209 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6211 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6213 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6214 bytes in the message body.
6216 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6217 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6220 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6222 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6224 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6225 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6226 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6227 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6234 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6235 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6237 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6238 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6239 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6240 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6241 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6243 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6244 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6246 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6247 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6248 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6250 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6251 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6252 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6254 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6257 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6258 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6259 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6260 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6261 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6262 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6263 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6269 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6270 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6271 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6272 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6273 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6274 default (and expected) setting.
6276 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6277 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6278 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6279 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6281 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6282 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6284 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6287 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6288 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6289 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6290 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6291 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6292 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6294 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6295 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6296 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6298 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6299 part (NOT match_host).
6301 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6303 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6304 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6305 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6306 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6307 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6308 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6309 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6310 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6311 the same named file.
6313 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6314 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6317 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6318 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6319 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6320 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6323 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6324 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6325 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6327 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6329 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6331 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6333 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6334 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6336 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6337 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6338 before starting the TLS session.
6340 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6342 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6343 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6345 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6346 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6347 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6348 colon in the middle).
6354 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6355 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6356 multiple configurations are in use.
6358 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6359 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6360 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6361 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6362 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6363 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6365 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6366 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6368 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6369 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6370 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6372 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6373 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6376 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6377 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6379 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6381 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6382 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6384 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6392 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6393 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6394 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6395 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6396 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6398 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6401 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6402 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6403 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6404 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6405 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6406 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6408 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6409 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6410 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6411 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6412 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6413 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6414 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6417 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6418 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6419 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6420 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6421 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6423 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6425 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6426 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6427 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6429 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6431 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6432 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6433 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6436 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6437 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6439 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6440 Three changes have been made:
6442 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6443 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6444 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6445 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6446 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6448 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6451 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6452 the modified behaviour.
6458 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6461 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6462 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6464 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6465 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6466 try to track down a specific problem.
6468 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6469 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6470 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6472 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6475 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6476 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6477 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6478 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6479 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6480 some earlier ones do not.
6482 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6484 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6485 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6486 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6487 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6488 address literals are enabled, of course).
6490 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6492 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6493 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6494 by a command such as
6498 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6500 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6502 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6503 remained set. It is now erased.
6505 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6506 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6508 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6509 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6510 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6511 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6512 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6513 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6514 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6515 appropriate error code.
6517 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6518 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6519 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6520 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6521 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6522 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6524 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6525 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6526 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6528 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6529 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6530 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6531 terminate the header.
6533 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6534 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6535 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6537 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6538 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6539 (4.30/29). In particular:
6541 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6544 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6545 to write a maildirsize file.
6547 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6548 the transport, the new value overrides.
6550 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6553 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6554 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6555 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6558 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6559 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6560 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6563 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6564 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6565 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6567 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6568 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6571 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6572 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6573 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6575 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6577 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6579 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6581 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6582 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6585 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6586 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6587 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6588 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6589 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6590 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6591 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6594 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6595 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6596 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6597 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6598 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6601 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6602 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6603 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6604 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6605 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6606 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6607 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6608 cached value only when the same options are set.
6610 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6612 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6613 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6614 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6615 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6616 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6618 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6619 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6620 it is clearly obsolete.
6622 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6625 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6626 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6627 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6630 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6631 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6632 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6633 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6634 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6636 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6637 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6638 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6639 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6641 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6643 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6645 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6646 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6649 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6650 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6651 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6652 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6653 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6654 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6657 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6658 with the -f command-line option.
6660 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6661 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6662 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6663 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6664 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6665 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6667 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6668 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6671 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6672 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6673 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6674 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6675 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6676 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6677 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6678 buffer is too small.
6680 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6681 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6683 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6684 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6685 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6686 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6687 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6688 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6689 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6690 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6691 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6693 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6694 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6695 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6697 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6698 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6701 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6702 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6703 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6704 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6705 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6707 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6708 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6709 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6710 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6713 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6715 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6717 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6718 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6720 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6721 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6722 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6724 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6725 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6726 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6727 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6728 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6730 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6731 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6732 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6733 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6734 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6735 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6736 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6738 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6739 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6740 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6741 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6742 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6743 the test of how many are available.
6745 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6746 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6747 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6748 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6749 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6750 new message is started.
6752 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6753 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6755 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6756 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6758 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6759 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6760 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6763 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6764 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6765 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6766 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6767 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6768 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6769 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6771 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6772 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6773 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6774 interpreted as octal.
6776 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6779 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6780 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6781 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6782 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6783 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6784 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6786 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6787 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6788 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6789 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6791 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6792 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6793 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6794 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6796 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6797 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6800 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6801 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6803 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6805 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6806 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6807 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6808 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6810 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6811 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6812 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6813 supplied", which is not helpful.
6815 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6816 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6817 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6819 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6820 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6821 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6822 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6823 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6824 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6825 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6826 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6828 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6829 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6830 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6831 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6832 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6834 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6835 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6836 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6837 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6838 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6839 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6841 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6842 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6843 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6845 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6847 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6848 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6849 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6852 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6854 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6855 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6856 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6857 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6858 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6859 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6860 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6861 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6863 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6864 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6865 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6866 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6867 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6869 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6872 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6873 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6874 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6875 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6876 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6877 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6878 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6879 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6880 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6886 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6887 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6888 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6890 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6893 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6894 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6895 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6897 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6898 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6899 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6900 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6901 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6902 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6904 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6905 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6906 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6907 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6908 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6909 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6910 the Exim test suite.
6912 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6913 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6914 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6915 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6917 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6918 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6919 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6920 specify it in this variable.
6922 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6923 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6924 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6925 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6927 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6928 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6929 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6930 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6932 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6933 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6934 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6935 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6936 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6938 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6940 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6943 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6944 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6945 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6946 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6947 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6949 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6950 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6952 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6953 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6954 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6955 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6956 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6958 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6959 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6961 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6962 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6963 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6965 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6966 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6968 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6969 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6971 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6972 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6973 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6975 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6976 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6978 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6979 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6980 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6981 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6983 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6985 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6986 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6987 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6988 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6990 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6992 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6993 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6995 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6997 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6998 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6999 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7000 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7001 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7002 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7004 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7006 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7007 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7010 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7012 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7013 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7015 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7016 550 Sender verify failed
7018 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7019 the final line of the response.
7021 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7022 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7023 all other user lookups.
7025 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7028 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7029 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7030 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7031 result into an int without checking.
7033 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7034 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7035 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7037 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7038 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7039 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7040 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7042 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7045 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7046 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7048 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7049 to the empty sender.
7051 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7052 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7053 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7054 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7055 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7056 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7057 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7060 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7061 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7062 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7063 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7066 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7067 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7069 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7072 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7073 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7075 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7077 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7078 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7081 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7082 as soon as it is encountered.
7084 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7086 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7089 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7090 recognizes a tab character.
7092 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7093 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7094 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7095 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7097 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7099 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7102 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7104 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7106 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7107 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7110 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7111 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7112 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7113 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7114 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7116 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7117 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7119 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7120 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7121 list (.included file names were always shown).
7123 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7124 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7125 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7128 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7129 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7131 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7133 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7135 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7137 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7138 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7139 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7140 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7141 failures to open the logs.
7143 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7144 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7145 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7146 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7147 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7148 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7149 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7155 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7156 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7157 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7160 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7161 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7162 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7164 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7165 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7166 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7168 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7169 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7170 causing some misleading effects.
7172 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7173 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7174 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7176 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7177 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7178 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7179 queue-runner function directly.
7185 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7188 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7189 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7190 was always written to the default place.
7192 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7193 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7194 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7196 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7198 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7200 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7201 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7202 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7204 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7205 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7208 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7209 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7210 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7212 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7213 command line option is disabled.
7215 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7216 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7218 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7220 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7222 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7223 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7225 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7227 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7228 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7229 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7230 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7231 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7232 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7234 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7235 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7238 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7239 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7241 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7242 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7244 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7245 received was valid base64.
7247 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7248 name of the variable that was being set.
7250 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7252 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7253 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7254 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7255 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7256 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7257 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7259 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7261 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7262 nor realm was specified.
7264 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7265 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7266 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7267 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7269 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7270 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7271 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7273 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7274 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7275 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7277 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7278 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7279 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7280 some systems use these upper case variants.
7282 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7283 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7284 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7285 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7287 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7289 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7290 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7292 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7293 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7296 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7298 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7299 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7300 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7301 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7303 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7306 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7307 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7308 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7310 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7311 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7313 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7314 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7315 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7316 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7318 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7319 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7320 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7322 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7324 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7325 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7326 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7327 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7330 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7331 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7332 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7334 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7336 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7337 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7339 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7340 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7342 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7343 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7344 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7345 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7346 when emails are that large.
7353 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7354 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7356 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7357 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7358 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7360 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7361 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7362 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7364 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7365 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7366 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7367 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7368 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7370 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7371 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7372 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7373 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7374 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7377 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7378 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7379 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7380 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7381 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7382 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7383 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7384 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7385 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7386 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7387 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7388 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7389 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7390 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7392 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7393 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7396 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7397 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7398 error should be diagnosed.
7400 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7401 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7402 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7403 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7404 appeared instead of "NULL".
7406 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7407 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7408 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7409 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7410 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7411 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7414 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7415 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7416 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7422 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7423 or receiver verification errors.
7425 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7428 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7429 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7430 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7431 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7433 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7434 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7435 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7436 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7437 shouldn't happen again.
7439 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7440 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7441 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7443 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7444 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7446 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7448 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7449 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7451 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7452 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7455 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7456 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7457 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7459 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7460 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7461 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7462 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7464 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7465 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7466 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7467 to define what should happen).
7469 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7470 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7471 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7473 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7475 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7477 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7478 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7480 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7481 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7482 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7483 structure in all cases.
7485 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7486 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7487 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7488 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7490 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7491 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7494 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7495 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7497 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7498 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7500 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7501 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7502 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7504 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7505 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7506 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7508 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7509 the book and for uniformity.
7511 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7513 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7514 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7515 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7516 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7517 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7518 non-existent command as the problem.
7520 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7521 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7522 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7524 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7526 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7527 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7528 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7530 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7531 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7532 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7533 timestamps using strftime().
7535 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7536 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7538 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7539 transport-time rewrites.
7541 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7542 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7543 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7544 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7546 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7547 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7549 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7550 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7551 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7552 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7555 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7556 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7557 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7558 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7559 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7560 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7561 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7563 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7564 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7565 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7566 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7567 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7569 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7570 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7571 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7572 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7573 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7574 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7575 remaining text gets split now.
7577 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7578 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7579 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7580 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7582 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7583 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7584 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7585 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7588 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7589 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7590 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7591 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7592 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7593 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7594 passed through if needed.
7596 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7597 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7598 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7599 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7600 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7601 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7603 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7604 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7605 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7606 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7607 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7609 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7610 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7611 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7612 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7613 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7615 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7616 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7619 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7620 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7621 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7622 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7623 mayhem of various kinds.
7625 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7626 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7627 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7628 the right test for positive values.
7630 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7631 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7632 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7633 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7634 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7635 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7636 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7637 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7638 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7639 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7642 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7645 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7646 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7649 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7650 the existing equality matching.
7652 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7653 dealing with inode numbers.
7655 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7656 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7657 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7659 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7660 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7661 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7662 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7665 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7666 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7667 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7668 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7669 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7670 relay addresses has also been removed.
7672 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7674 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7675 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7676 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7678 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7679 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7680 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7681 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7682 processing applies to CR:
7684 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7685 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7687 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7688 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7689 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7690 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7692 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7693 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7694 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7696 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7697 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7698 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7699 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7700 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7701 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7704 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7707 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7708 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7709 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7710 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7713 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7715 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7717 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7719 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7720 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7721 not considered personal.
7723 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7725 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7727 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7729 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7730 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7731 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7732 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7733 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7734 header lines, and spool format errors.
7736 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7737 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7738 for more flexibility.
7740 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7741 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7742 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7744 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7747 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7748 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7749 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7750 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7751 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7752 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7753 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7754 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7755 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7757 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7758 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7759 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7760 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7761 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7762 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7763 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7765 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7766 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7767 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7769 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7770 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7771 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7772 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7773 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7774 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7775 instead of killing the process with assert().
7777 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7778 than Unicode encoding.
7780 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7781 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7782 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7783 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7785 77. Added process_log_path.
7787 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7788 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7790 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7791 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7793 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7794 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7795 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7797 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7798 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7799 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7800 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7801 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7804 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7805 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7808 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7809 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7810 they will be used during message reception.
7816 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.