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.
6 Since Exim version 4.94
7 -----------------------
9 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
10 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
11 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
14 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
15 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
16 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
17 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
18 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
25 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
26 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
28 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
30 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
31 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
34 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
35 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
36 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
38 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
40 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
42 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
43 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
44 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
46 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
47 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
48 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
50 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
51 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
53 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
54 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
57 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
58 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
59 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
60 should both provide the file and set the option.
61 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
63 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
64 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
66 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
67 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
68 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
69 Authentication-Results: header.
71 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
72 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
73 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
74 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
76 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
77 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
78 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
79 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
80 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
81 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
82 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
84 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
85 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
86 copies while it is still usable.
88 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
89 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
90 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
92 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
93 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
95 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
96 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
97 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
98 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
100 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
101 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
102 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
105 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
106 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
107 - the pipe transport command
108 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
109 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
111 - paths used by single-key lookups
112 Previously this was permitted.
114 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
115 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
116 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
117 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
119 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
120 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
121 support larger malloc requests.
123 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
124 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
125 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
126 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
128 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
129 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
130 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
131 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
134 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
135 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
136 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
137 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
138 data being length-specified.
140 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
141 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
142 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
143 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
145 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
146 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
147 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
148 not being properly tracked.
150 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
151 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
152 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
153 minute could be seen.
155 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
156 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
157 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
159 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
160 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
162 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
163 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
166 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
168 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
169 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
171 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
172 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
173 filesystem as sufficient validation.
175 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
176 argument is supplied.
178 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
179 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
180 access under Exim's current working directory.
182 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
183 Previously no event was raised.
185 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
186 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
187 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
190 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
191 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
192 the size of the signature hash.
194 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
195 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
197 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
198 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
199 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
200 dropped between messages.
202 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
203 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
204 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
205 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
207 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
208 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
209 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
210 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
211 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
212 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
213 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
214 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
215 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
217 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
218 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
219 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
221 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
222 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
229 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
230 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
232 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
233 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
236 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
239 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
241 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
243 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
244 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
246 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
247 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
248 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
249 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
250 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
251 suitably configured).
253 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
254 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
256 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
257 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
260 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
261 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
263 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
264 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
265 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
266 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
269 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
270 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
271 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
273 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
276 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
277 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
279 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
280 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
281 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
282 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
285 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
286 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
287 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
288 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
291 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
292 shared (NFS) environment.
294 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
295 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
298 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
299 on some platforms for bit 31.
301 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
302 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
303 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
304 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
305 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
306 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
307 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
308 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
310 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
312 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
313 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
315 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
316 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
319 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
320 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
323 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
324 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
325 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
328 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
329 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
330 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
332 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
333 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
334 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
335 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
336 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
338 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
341 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
342 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
343 be requested on all coneections.
345 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
346 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
348 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
350 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
351 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
352 one for these; the option was ignored.
354 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
355 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
356 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
357 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
359 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
360 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
361 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
364 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
365 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
366 error ignored was made.
368 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
370 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
371 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
372 values, to catch one form of exploit.
374 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
375 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
376 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
378 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
379 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
382 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
383 them in our smtp response.
385 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
386 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
387 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
388 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
389 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
391 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
392 link count into consideration.
394 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
395 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
397 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
398 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
399 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
402 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
404 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
406 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
408 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
409 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
410 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
411 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
413 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
415 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
416 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
419 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
420 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
421 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
423 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
424 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
425 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
427 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
428 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
429 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
430 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
431 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
432 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
433 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
434 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
436 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
437 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
438 resulted in an indefinite loop.
440 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
441 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
442 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
448 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
449 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
451 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
452 non-signal-safe functions being used.
454 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
455 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
456 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
458 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
459 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
460 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
462 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
463 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
464 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
465 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
466 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
469 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
470 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
472 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
473 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
474 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
475 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
476 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
477 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
478 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
480 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
481 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
483 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
486 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
487 Previously this would segfault.
489 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
492 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
493 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
494 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
495 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
496 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
497 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
499 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
501 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
502 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
503 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
504 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
506 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
508 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
509 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
510 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
511 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
513 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
515 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
517 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
518 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
519 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
521 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
522 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
523 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
525 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
527 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
528 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
529 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
530 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
532 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
533 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
534 promised '?' replacement.
536 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
538 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
539 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
540 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
541 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
542 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
544 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
545 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
546 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
548 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
549 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
550 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
552 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
553 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
554 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
556 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
557 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
558 hope that is portable enough.
560 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
561 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
562 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
563 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
565 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
566 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
567 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
569 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
570 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
571 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
572 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
574 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
575 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
577 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
578 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
579 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
580 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
582 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
583 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
584 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
586 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
587 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
588 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
589 the previous G, M, k.
591 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
592 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
595 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
596 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
597 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
598 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
600 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
601 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
603 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
604 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
605 off past the nul-terimation.
607 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
608 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
609 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
610 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
611 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
613 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
615 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
616 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
617 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
620 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
621 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
623 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
624 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
625 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
627 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
628 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
629 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
631 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
632 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
638 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
639 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
640 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
641 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
642 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
643 be defined in redis_servers.
645 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
646 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
648 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
649 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
650 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
651 extant use locations.
653 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
654 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
656 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
657 Previously only the last row was returned.
659 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
660 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
661 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
662 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
665 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
666 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
667 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
668 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
669 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
670 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
671 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
672 Main pool for expansions.
673 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
674 active in the testsuite.
675 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
677 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
678 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
679 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
680 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
683 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
684 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
687 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
688 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
689 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
691 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
692 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
693 ClamAV interface method is removed.
695 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
696 rows affected is given instead).
698 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
699 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
701 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
702 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
703 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
704 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
705 for all multi-message initiating connections.
707 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
708 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
709 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
711 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
712 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
713 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
714 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
717 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
718 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
719 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
722 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
724 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
725 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
727 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
728 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
729 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
731 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
732 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
733 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
736 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
737 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
739 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
740 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
741 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
743 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
744 for the build is renamed.
746 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
747 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
748 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
750 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
751 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
752 result replacing the original.
754 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
755 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
756 and the resources needed to be freed.
758 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
760 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
763 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
764 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
765 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
766 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
768 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
769 length value. Previously this would segfault.
771 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
772 newer versions of the scanner.
774 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
775 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
776 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
777 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
778 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
779 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
780 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
782 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
783 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
784 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
785 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
786 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
787 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
788 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
789 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
790 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
791 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
793 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
794 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
796 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
798 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
799 allows proper process termination in container environments.
801 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
802 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
804 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
805 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
806 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
808 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
809 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
810 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
811 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
813 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
814 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
817 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
818 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
820 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
821 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
822 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
823 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
824 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
826 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
827 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
830 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
831 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
833 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
836 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
837 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
838 "bare" representation.
840 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
841 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
842 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
843 corrupted the output.
849 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
850 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
851 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
852 pairs of long lines into single ones.
854 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
855 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
857 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
858 This permits better logging.
860 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
861 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
862 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
863 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
864 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
865 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
867 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
868 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
871 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
872 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
873 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
875 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
876 than 255 are no longer allowed.
878 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
879 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
880 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
881 client, there is no benefit for these.
882 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
883 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
884 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
887 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
888 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
890 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
891 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
892 erroneously found still-pending ones.
894 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
895 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
897 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
898 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
899 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
900 signature and again for transmission.
902 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
903 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
904 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
906 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
907 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
908 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
909 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
910 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
911 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
912 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
914 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
915 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
916 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
917 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
919 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
920 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
921 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
922 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
923 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
924 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
927 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
928 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
929 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
930 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
933 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
934 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
935 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
936 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
939 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
940 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
943 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
944 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
945 banner-time rejection.
947 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
950 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
951 is the name of a transport.
954 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
956 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
957 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
959 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
960 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
961 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
964 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
965 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
966 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
967 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
969 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
970 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
971 initial verify call returned a defer.
973 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
974 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
976 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
977 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
979 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
980 if present. Previously it was ignored.
982 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
983 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
985 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
986 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
989 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
990 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
992 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
993 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
994 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
996 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
997 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
998 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
999 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1001 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1002 and confused the parent.
1004 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1005 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1007 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1010 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1011 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1012 out-of-order delivery.
1014 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1015 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1016 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1019 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1020 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1023 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1024 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1025 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1027 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1028 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1029 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1030 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1031 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1032 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1034 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1035 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1036 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1038 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1039 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1040 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1042 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1043 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1044 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1045 though a different problem.
1051 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1052 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1054 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1056 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1057 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1059 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1060 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1062 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1063 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1064 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1065 before acknowledging the chunk.
1067 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1068 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1069 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1071 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1072 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1073 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1076 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1077 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1078 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1080 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1081 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1083 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1084 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1085 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1086 body hash calculated value.
1088 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1089 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1090 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1092 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1094 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1095 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1097 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1098 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1099 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1101 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1102 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1103 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1104 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1105 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1106 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1108 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1109 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1110 past that check, despite the cost.
1112 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1113 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1114 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1116 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1117 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1118 TLS library to consume.
1120 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1122 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1124 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1125 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1126 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1127 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1128 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1129 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1130 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1132 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1134 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1136 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1137 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1138 should be warning-free.
1140 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1142 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1143 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1145 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1146 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1147 general solution here.
1149 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1150 already-broken messages in the queue.
1152 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1154 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1160 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1161 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1163 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1164 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1165 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1167 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1168 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1169 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1170 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1171 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1172 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1173 if one fails this test.
1174 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1175 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1177 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1178 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1180 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1181 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1183 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1184 in rewrites and routers.
1186 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1187 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1189 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1190 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1192 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1194 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1197 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1198 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1199 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1200 connection after a verify cache hit.
1201 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1203 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1204 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1206 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1207 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1208 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1209 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1210 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1212 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1213 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1215 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1216 Previously they were not counted.
1218 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1219 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1220 that needed the lookup.
1222 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1223 distinguished as "(=".
1225 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1226 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1228 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1230 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1231 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1233 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1234 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1236 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1237 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1240 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1241 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1242 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1243 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1245 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1247 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1248 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1249 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1251 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1252 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1253 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1256 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1257 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1258 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1261 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1262 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1263 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1265 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1266 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1269 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1271 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1272 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1274 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1275 are not in the system include path.
1277 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1278 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1279 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1280 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1282 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1283 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1284 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1286 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1288 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1289 an incoming connection.
1291 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1294 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1295 fallback to "prime256v1".
1297 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1298 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1304 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1305 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1306 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1307 client dropping the TLS connection.
1309 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1310 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1312 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1313 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1314 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1315 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1318 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1319 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1320 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1321 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1322 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1323 check on the next write.
1325 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1326 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1327 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1328 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1329 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1331 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1332 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1334 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1335 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1336 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1338 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1339 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1340 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1341 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1343 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1344 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1346 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1347 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1349 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1350 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1351 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1354 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1356 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1358 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1360 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1361 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1363 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1364 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1366 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1368 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1369 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1371 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1373 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1374 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1376 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1378 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1379 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1380 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1381 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1382 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1383 they will retry in-clear.
1384 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1385 at installation time.
1387 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1388 with the $config_file variable.
1390 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1391 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1392 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1393 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1394 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1396 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1397 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1398 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1399 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1400 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1402 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1404 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1405 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1406 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1407 list order is no longer honoured.
1409 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1410 for DKIM processing.
1412 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1413 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1415 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1416 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1417 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1418 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1420 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1421 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1423 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1424 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1426 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1427 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1429 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1431 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1432 cached by the daemon.
1434 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1435 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1437 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1438 keys are given for lookup.
1440 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1441 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1442 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1443 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1445 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1446 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1447 server-side so match that on older versions.
1449 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1450 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1451 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1453 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1454 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1456 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1457 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1458 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1459 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1460 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1461 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1462 initial truncated version.
1464 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1466 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1468 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1469 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1471 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1473 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1475 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1476 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1479 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1480 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1483 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1484 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1486 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1487 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1490 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1491 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1492 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1494 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1495 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1496 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1497 extraction. Accept either.
1503 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1506 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1508 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1511 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1512 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1513 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1514 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1516 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1517 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1518 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1520 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1521 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1522 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1525 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1528 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1529 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1530 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1531 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1532 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1534 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1535 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1536 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1538 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1540 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1541 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1543 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1544 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1546 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1549 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1550 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1552 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1553 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1554 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1556 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1557 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1558 specify a port-range.
1560 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1561 timeout value per server.
1563 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1564 now have the list separator specified.
1566 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1569 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1572 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1574 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1575 rather than the verbs used.
1577 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1578 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1580 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1582 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1583 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1585 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1586 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1588 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1589 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1591 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1593 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1595 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1596 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1597 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1598 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1600 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1602 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1603 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1605 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1606 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1608 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1610 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1612 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1614 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1615 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1617 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1618 added for tls authenticator.
1620 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1626 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1627 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1628 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1629 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1630 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1631 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1632 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1634 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1635 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1636 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1637 function when detected.
1639 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1640 cause callback expansion.
1642 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1643 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1644 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1645 instead of bool when processing it.
1647 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1648 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1650 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1652 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1654 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1656 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1657 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1659 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1660 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1661 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1662 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1663 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1664 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1666 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1667 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1670 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1671 version 3.3.6 or later.
1673 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1674 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1675 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1676 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1677 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1678 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1681 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1682 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1684 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1685 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1686 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1689 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1690 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1691 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1693 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1694 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1696 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1697 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1700 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1702 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1703 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1705 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1706 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1709 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1711 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1714 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1715 output list separator was used.
1720 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1721 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1724 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1725 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1727 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1729 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1730 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1736 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1738 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1739 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1740 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1741 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1742 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1743 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1745 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1746 utilities have not been installed.
1748 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1749 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1751 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1752 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1754 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1755 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1756 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1757 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1759 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1761 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1762 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1764 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1767 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1769 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1770 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1771 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1773 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1774 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1775 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1776 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1777 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1778 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1780 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1782 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1783 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1785 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1788 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1790 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1792 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1793 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1795 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1796 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1798 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1800 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1802 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1803 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1805 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1806 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1807 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1809 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1810 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1811 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1814 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1816 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1817 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1820 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1821 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1824 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1825 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1827 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1828 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1830 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1832 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1833 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1834 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1836 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1837 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1839 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1840 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1843 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1844 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1845 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1847 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1849 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1850 Christian Aistleitner.
1852 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1854 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1855 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1857 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1858 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1860 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1861 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1863 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1864 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1866 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1867 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1869 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1870 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1871 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1873 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1875 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1876 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1879 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1881 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1882 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1889 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1891 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1892 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1894 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1897 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1898 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1901 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1903 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1904 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1905 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1906 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1907 using channel bindings instead).
1909 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1910 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1911 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1912 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1913 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1916 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1918 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1920 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1921 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1923 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1924 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1925 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1927 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1929 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1931 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1932 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1934 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1936 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1938 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1940 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1941 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1943 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1945 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1946 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1949 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1950 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1952 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1953 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1956 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1958 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1960 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1961 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1963 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1966 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1967 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1969 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1970 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1972 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1974 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1976 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1979 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1982 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1984 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1985 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1986 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1987 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1989 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1991 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1992 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1993 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1994 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1997 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1998 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1999 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2001 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2002 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2003 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2004 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2006 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2007 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2008 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2009 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2010 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2011 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2012 delivery, as in LMTP.
2014 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2015 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2017 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2019 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2023 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2024 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2025 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2026 username as equal to the username.
2028 This change corrects that bug.
2030 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2031 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2032 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2034 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2036 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2037 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2038 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2039 NULL dereference and crash.
2041 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2043 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2044 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2045 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2047 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2049 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2050 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2051 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2052 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2053 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2054 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2055 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2056 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2057 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2058 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2059 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2061 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2062 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2064 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2065 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2068 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2069 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2070 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2071 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2072 an empty string is now equivalent.
2074 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2075 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2076 not performing validation itself.
2078 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2079 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2081 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2084 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2086 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2087 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2088 other false fix of the same issue.
2089 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2092 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2093 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2095 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2096 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2097 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2099 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2100 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2101 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2103 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2105 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2107 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2108 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2110 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2113 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2114 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2115 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2116 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2117 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2119 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2120 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2122 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2123 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2126 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2127 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2128 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2129 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2131 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2133 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2134 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2135 from multiple comments on this bug.
2137 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2139 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2140 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2143 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2144 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2146 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2147 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2153 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2155 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2161 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2162 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2163 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2165 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2167 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2170 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2172 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2174 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2176 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2177 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2179 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2180 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2182 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2183 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2185 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2186 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2187 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2189 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2191 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2192 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2194 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2196 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2198 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2199 non-compliant senders.
2200 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2202 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2203 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2204 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2206 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2207 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2208 in spool file corruption.
2210 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2211 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2212 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2215 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2216 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2217 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2219 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2220 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2222 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2224 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2226 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2228 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2229 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2230 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2232 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2233 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2234 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2235 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2237 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2238 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2240 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2241 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2242 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2243 resolver implementation change.
2245 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2246 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2248 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2250 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2252 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2253 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2255 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2256 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2258 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2259 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2261 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2262 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2263 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2264 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2265 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2267 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2269 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2270 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2271 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2273 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2275 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2276 read-only, out of scope).
2277 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2279 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2280 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2281 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2282 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2284 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2286 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2287 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2288 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2289 real issues in debug logging.
2291 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2292 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2294 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2295 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2296 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2298 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2299 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2300 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2303 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2304 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2306 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2307 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2308 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2309 needs to override this, it can.
2311 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2312 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2313 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2315 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2316 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2317 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2318 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2320 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2326 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2327 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2329 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2331 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2334 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2335 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2337 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2338 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2339 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2341 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2342 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2343 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2344 not safe for signals.
2346 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2347 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2348 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2349 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2352 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2354 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2355 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2356 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2357 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2358 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2360 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2361 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2362 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2363 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2364 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2365 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2367 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2368 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2369 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2370 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2372 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2373 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2374 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2375 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2377 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2378 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2379 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2380 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2381 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2382 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2383 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2384 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2385 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2387 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2388 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2389 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2390 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2392 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2393 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2394 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2395 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2396 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2397 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2398 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2399 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2400 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2401 details in the main documentation.
2403 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2405 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2407 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2408 repository when doing development or release builds.
2410 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2411 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2413 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2414 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2417 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2419 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2420 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2422 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2423 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2425 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2426 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2428 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2429 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2431 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2432 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2434 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2436 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2439 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2440 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2441 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2443 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2445 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2447 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2448 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2454 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2456 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2457 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2459 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2461 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2463 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2466 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2467 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2469 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2470 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2472 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2473 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2475 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2478 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2479 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2481 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2482 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2483 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2484 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2486 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2487 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2493 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2496 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2497 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2498 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2500 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2501 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2503 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2504 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2505 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2507 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2508 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2510 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2511 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2513 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2514 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2516 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2517 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2519 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2520 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2522 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2525 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2526 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2528 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2529 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2531 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2532 SQL string expansion failure details.
2533 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2535 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2536 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2538 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2539 extern declarations in function scope.
2540 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2542 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2543 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2544 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2547 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2548 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2550 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2551 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2553 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2554 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2556 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2557 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2559 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2560 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2563 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2565 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2567 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2568 Patch by Simon Arlott
2570 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2571 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2577 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2578 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2580 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2581 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2583 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2585 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2586 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2587 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2589 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2590 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2591 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2593 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2594 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2595 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2596 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2598 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2599 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2600 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2601 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2603 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2604 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2605 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2608 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2611 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2612 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2613 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2614 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2615 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2621 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2622 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2623 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2625 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2626 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2628 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2630 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2632 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2634 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2636 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2638 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2639 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2640 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2641 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2643 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2644 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2645 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2646 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2647 more caution in buffer sizes.
2649 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2651 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2653 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2655 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2657 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2659 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2661 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2663 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2664 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2665 ignore trailing whitespace.
2667 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2669 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2672 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2673 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2675 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2676 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2677 Notification from John Horne.
2679 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2682 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2683 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2686 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2689 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2690 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2691 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2693 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2694 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2695 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2698 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2699 option (effectively making it always true).
2701 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2702 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2704 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2705 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2707 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2708 run-time user, instead of root.
2710 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2711 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2713 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2714 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2717 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2718 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2719 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2721 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2723 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2729 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2730 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2733 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2734 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2737 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2738 Patch from Alain Williams
2740 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2742 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2743 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2745 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2746 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2748 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2750 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2752 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2753 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2755 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2757 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2759 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2760 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2761 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2763 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2764 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2766 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2767 Patch by Simon Arlott
2769 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2770 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2776 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2778 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2780 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2782 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2784 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2790 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2791 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2793 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2794 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2797 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2798 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2799 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2801 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2802 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2804 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2805 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2806 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2807 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2809 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2810 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2811 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2813 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2815 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2817 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2818 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2820 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2822 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2823 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2824 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2825 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2827 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2828 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2830 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2832 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2834 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2835 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2837 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2838 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2840 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2841 that they are available at delivery time.
2843 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2845 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2846 incoming_port log selectors.
2848 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2849 setting expands to an empty string.
2851 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2852 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2854 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2855 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2857 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2858 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2860 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2861 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2863 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2864 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2866 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2867 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2869 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2871 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2872 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2874 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2875 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2877 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2879 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2880 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2882 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2884 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2886 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2889 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2890 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2892 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2893 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2895 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2896 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2898 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2899 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2901 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2902 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2904 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2905 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2907 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2908 plus update to original patch.
2910 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2912 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2913 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2915 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2917 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2919 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2921 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2923 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2924 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2926 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2927 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2929 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2930 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2932 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2933 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2935 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2937 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2939 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2941 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2947 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2948 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2949 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2951 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2952 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2953 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2954 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2955 build errors in sieve.c.
2957 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2958 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2959 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2961 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2963 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2965 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2967 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2973 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2975 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2976 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2977 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2978 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2979 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2980 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2981 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2982 for iplsearch lookups.
2984 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2985 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2986 previously such lookups could never work.
2988 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2989 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2990 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2992 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2995 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2996 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2997 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2998 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2999 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3000 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3002 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3003 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3005 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3006 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3007 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3008 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3009 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3010 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3012 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3015 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3017 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3018 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3021 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3022 by clients under certain conditions.
3024 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3025 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3027 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3029 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3030 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3032 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3034 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3036 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3038 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3039 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3041 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3043 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3044 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3046 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3048 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3050 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3051 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3052 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3053 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3055 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3056 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3057 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3059 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3060 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3062 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3064 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3066 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3068 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3069 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3070 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3076 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3077 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3080 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3081 issue a MAIL command.
3083 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3085 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3087 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3088 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3089 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3090 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3091 item. This has been fixed.
3093 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3094 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3096 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3097 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3099 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3100 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3101 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3103 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3105 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3106 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3107 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3108 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3109 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3111 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3112 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3113 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3115 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3116 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3117 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3118 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3120 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3122 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3124 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3125 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3126 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3127 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3128 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3130 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3132 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3133 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3134 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3137 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3139 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3141 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3143 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3145 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3147 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3148 no_callout_flush is set.
3150 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3151 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3152 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3155 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3157 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3158 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3159 other ACL rejections are.
3161 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3162 with slight modification.
3164 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3165 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3167 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3168 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3171 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3172 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3174 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3176 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3177 expansion side effects.
3179 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3180 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3181 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3184 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3185 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3186 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3188 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3189 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3190 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3191 were accidentally chopped off.
3193 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3194 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3195 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3196 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3197 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3198 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3199 pipelining has not been advertised.
3201 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3203 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3204 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3205 This has been fixed.
3207 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3208 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3209 reported on Solaris.
3211 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3212 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3213 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3214 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3215 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3216 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3217 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3219 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3222 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3224 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3226 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3227 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3228 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3229 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3230 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3231 criteria to be more general.
3233 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3234 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3235 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3236 host_all_ignored option.
3238 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3239 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3240 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3241 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3242 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3243 is what is supposed to happen).
3245 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3246 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3247 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3248 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3249 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3252 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3253 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3254 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3255 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3256 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3257 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3260 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3262 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3263 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3265 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3266 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3268 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3270 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3272 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3273 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3274 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3275 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3276 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3277 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3278 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3279 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3280 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3281 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3282 least in a lot of common cases.
3284 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3285 advertised in response to EHLO.
3291 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3292 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3294 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3295 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3297 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3298 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3299 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3301 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3302 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3303 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3304 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3305 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3311 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3312 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3315 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3316 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3317 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3319 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3320 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3321 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3322 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3323 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3324 rather than extend the field.
3330 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3331 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3332 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3333 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3336 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3337 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3338 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3340 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3341 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3342 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3344 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3345 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3346 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3349 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3350 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3351 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3352 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3353 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3354 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3355 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3356 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3357 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3358 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3359 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3361 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3364 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3365 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3366 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3367 ignores EPIPE as well.
3369 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3370 (quoted-printable decoding).
3372 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3373 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3375 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3377 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3379 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3381 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3382 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3384 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3387 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3388 miscellaneous code fixes
3390 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3393 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3394 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3395 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3396 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3397 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3398 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3399 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3400 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3402 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3403 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3404 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3405 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3407 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3408 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3409 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3410 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3411 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3412 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3413 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3414 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3415 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3417 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3420 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3421 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3422 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3423 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3424 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3425 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3426 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3427 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3429 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3430 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3433 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3434 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3435 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3436 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3437 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3438 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3439 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3440 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3441 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3442 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3443 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3444 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3445 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3447 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3448 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3449 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3450 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3451 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3452 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3453 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3455 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3456 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3457 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3458 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3459 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3460 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3461 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3462 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3463 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3464 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3466 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3467 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3468 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3469 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3470 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3472 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3473 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3474 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3475 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3476 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3477 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3478 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3480 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3481 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3482 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3483 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3484 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3485 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3488 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3489 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3490 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3493 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3494 if any retry times were supplied.
3496 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3497 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3498 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3500 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3502 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3504 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3505 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3506 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3507 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3508 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3509 before) are ignored.
3511 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3512 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3514 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3515 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3516 committing the later change.]
3518 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3519 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3520 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3521 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3522 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3523 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3524 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3525 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3526 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3528 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3529 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3530 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3531 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3532 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3533 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3534 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3535 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3536 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3538 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3539 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3540 hammering the server.
3542 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3543 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3545 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3547 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3548 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3549 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3551 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3552 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3553 one case where this was not true.
3555 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3556 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3557 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3558 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3561 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3562 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3563 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3564 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3565 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3566 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3567 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3568 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3569 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3572 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3573 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3574 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3575 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3577 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3578 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3580 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3581 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3582 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3584 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3586 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3588 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3590 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3591 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3592 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3593 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3595 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3596 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3598 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3599 be meaningful with "accept".
3601 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3602 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3604 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3605 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3606 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3608 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3609 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3610 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3611 there is data to show.
3612 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3614 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3615 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3616 as well as the number of messages.
3618 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3619 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3620 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3622 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3623 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3624 have a flag are now skipped.
3626 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3627 Added the -emptyok flag.
3629 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3630 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3632 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3633 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3634 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3636 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3639 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3640 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3642 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3644 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3645 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3647 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3649 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3650 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3651 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3652 contravention of the specifications.
3654 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3655 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3656 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3658 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3659 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3660 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3662 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3664 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3665 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3666 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3667 some point in the past.
3669 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3670 transport during callout processing was broken.
3672 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3673 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3675 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3676 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3678 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3679 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3681 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3687 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3688 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3690 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3691 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3692 there is data to show.
3693 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3695 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3696 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3698 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3699 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3701 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3702 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3704 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3705 submissions from trusted users.
3707 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3708 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3710 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3711 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3712 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3713 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3714 there is now a framework to start from.
3716 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3717 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3718 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3720 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3722 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3724 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3726 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3727 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3728 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3730 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3733 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3734 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3735 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3737 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3738 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3739 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3742 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3743 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3744 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3745 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3746 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3748 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3749 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3751 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3753 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3754 operations in malware.c.
3756 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3759 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3760 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3761 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3764 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3765 statements to "add_header".
3767 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3768 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3770 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3771 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3774 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3778 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3779 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3780 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3783 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3784 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3786 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3787 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3789 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3790 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3791 any possible encoding problems.
3793 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3794 but not after initializing Perl.
3796 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3797 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3798 apparently, which is not desirable.
3800 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3803 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3806 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3808 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3809 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3810 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3811 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3813 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3814 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3815 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3817 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3818 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3819 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3822 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3823 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3824 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3825 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3826 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3832 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3833 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3835 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3838 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3839 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3840 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3841 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3842 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3843 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3844 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3845 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3848 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3850 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3851 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3852 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3854 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3855 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3856 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3859 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3860 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3862 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3863 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3864 option (which defaults to 0600).
3866 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3868 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3869 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3870 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3871 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3872 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3873 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3874 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3876 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3882 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3883 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3884 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3885 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3886 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3887 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3890 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3891 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3893 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3895 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3896 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3897 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3898 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3899 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3902 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3903 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3905 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3906 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3907 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3908 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3909 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3911 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3912 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3913 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3914 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3916 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3917 be the same on different OS.
3919 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3922 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3923 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3925 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3928 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3929 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3930 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3931 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3932 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3933 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3936 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3937 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3938 when Exim was called.
3940 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3941 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3943 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3944 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3945 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3946 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3948 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3949 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3950 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3951 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3954 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3955 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3956 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3958 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3959 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3960 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3962 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3965 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3966 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3967 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3968 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3969 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3970 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3971 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3972 values from the SRV records were lost.
3974 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3975 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3976 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3978 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3979 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3980 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3982 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3983 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3984 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3985 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3986 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3987 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3988 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3989 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3990 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3991 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3993 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3994 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3995 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3997 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3998 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4000 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4001 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4002 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4003 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4006 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4007 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4008 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4010 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4011 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4012 PH/23 above applies.
4014 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4015 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4016 (for which there is an explicit test).
4018 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4020 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4021 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4022 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4023 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4024 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4026 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4027 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4028 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4029 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4031 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4032 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4033 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4035 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4037 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4039 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4040 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4041 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4043 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4044 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4045 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4046 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4047 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4049 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4050 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4051 the message gets confusing).
4053 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4054 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4055 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4056 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4058 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4059 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4060 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4061 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4064 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4065 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4066 the different processes.
4068 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4070 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4072 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4073 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4075 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4076 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4078 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4079 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4080 messages matching specified criteria.
4082 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4084 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4085 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4087 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4088 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4089 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4090 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4091 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4092 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4093 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4094 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4095 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4096 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4098 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4099 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4100 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4102 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4104 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4105 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4106 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4107 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4108 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4109 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4110 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4113 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4114 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4116 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4118 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4120 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4122 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4123 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4124 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4125 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4126 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4127 size of the count of files.
4129 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4131 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4134 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4135 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4136 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4137 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4139 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4140 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4141 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4143 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4144 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4145 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4146 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4147 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4149 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4150 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4152 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4153 will now be deprecated.
4155 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4157 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4158 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4159 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4161 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4162 with very large, slow to parse queues
4164 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4166 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4168 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4169 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4170 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4173 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4174 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4175 Sieve code now uses this.
4177 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4178 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4180 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4181 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4183 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4185 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4186 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4187 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4188 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4189 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4191 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4192 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4193 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4194 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4196 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4198 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4200 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4201 is preferred over IPv4.
4203 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4204 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4205 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4206 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4207 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4208 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4209 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4211 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4212 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4213 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4215 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4217 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4218 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4219 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4220 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4221 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4222 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4223 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4224 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4225 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4226 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4227 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4229 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4230 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4231 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4237 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4239 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4240 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4242 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4243 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4244 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4246 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4248 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4251 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4254 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4255 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4256 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4259 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4260 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4262 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4263 inside the third argument.
4265 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4266 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4269 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4270 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4272 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4273 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4275 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4277 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4278 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4281 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4283 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4284 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4285 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4286 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4287 identical. For example:
4289 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4291 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4292 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4293 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4295 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4296 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4297 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4298 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4300 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4301 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4302 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4305 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4307 o fixes some comments
4308 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4309 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4310 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4311 and documents the missing references header update
4315 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4316 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4319 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4320 Electronic Mail") by including:
4322 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4324 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4325 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4326 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4327 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4328 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4330 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4332 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4334 The auto-replied keyword:
4336 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4337 message by an automatic process,
4339 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4341 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4342 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4344 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4345 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4348 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4349 to the default Received: header definition.
4351 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4353 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4354 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4355 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4357 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4358 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4359 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4361 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4362 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4363 and treats the condition as false.
4365 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4367 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4368 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4369 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4370 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4371 not changing the active code.
4373 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4374 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4376 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4377 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4379 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4382 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4383 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4384 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4385 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4386 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4387 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4388 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4389 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4390 the text comparison.
4392 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4393 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4394 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4395 The same fix has been applied.
4401 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4402 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4405 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4406 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4408 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4410 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4411 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4412 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4413 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4414 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4416 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4417 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4418 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4419 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4422 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4430 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4431 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4433 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4435 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4437 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4438 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4439 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4441 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4442 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4443 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4445 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4446 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4449 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4450 ${stat: expansion item.
4452 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4453 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4455 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4456 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4459 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4461 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4464 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4465 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4467 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4469 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4470 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4471 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4472 the end of the subprocess.
4474 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4475 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4476 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4477 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4478 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4480 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4482 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4484 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4485 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4487 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4489 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4491 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4492 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4495 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4497 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4498 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4499 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4501 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4502 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4504 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4505 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4507 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4508 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4510 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4511 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4513 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4514 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4515 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4516 contributed by a Radius user.
4518 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4519 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4521 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4522 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4524 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4527 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4528 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4531 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4532 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4533 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4534 header lines when this was not necessary.
4536 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4538 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4539 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4540 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4543 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4546 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4547 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4548 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4549 return code was incorrect.
4551 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4553 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4555 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4557 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4559 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4560 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4561 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4562 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4563 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4566 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4568 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4569 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4570 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4571 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4572 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4573 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4574 which is clearly wrong.
4576 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4578 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4579 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4580 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4583 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4584 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4586 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4588 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4589 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4591 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4592 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4594 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4595 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4597 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4598 recipients, not senders.
4600 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4601 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4603 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4605 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4607 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4608 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4609 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4610 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4612 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4614 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4615 clock is set back in time.
4617 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4618 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4620 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4621 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4623 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4624 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4627 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4628 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4631 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4634 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4636 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4637 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4638 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4640 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4641 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4642 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4643 helo verification defer as a failure.
4645 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4646 actual error message.
4652 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4654 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4655 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4656 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4657 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4659 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4661 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4662 can still be requested.
4664 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4665 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4666 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4667 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4669 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4670 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4671 circumstances, but probably never did.
4673 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4674 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4675 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4678 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4680 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4681 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4683 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4685 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4687 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4688 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4689 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4690 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4691 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4692 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4694 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4695 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4696 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4697 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4698 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4699 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4701 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4702 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4704 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4705 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4707 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4708 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4710 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4712 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4714 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4716 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4718 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4720 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4722 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4724 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4725 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4726 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4728 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4729 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4730 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4731 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4733 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4734 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4735 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4737 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4738 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4739 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4740 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4742 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4743 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4746 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4747 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4748 should work with maildirs and everything.
4750 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4751 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4753 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4756 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4757 function for BDB 4.3.
4759 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4761 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4762 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4765 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4766 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4767 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4768 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4769 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4770 formatting function string_vformat().
4772 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4773 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4774 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4775 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4776 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4777 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4778 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4779 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4781 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4782 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4785 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4786 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4788 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4789 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4790 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4791 test. It is now used for both.
4793 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4794 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4795 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4796 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4797 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4798 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4800 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4801 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4802 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4805 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4806 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4807 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4809 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4810 experimental DomainKeys support:
4812 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4813 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4814 the control was given.
4816 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4818 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4820 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4822 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4823 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4824 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4827 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4828 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4829 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4830 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4831 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4832 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4835 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4836 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4837 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4838 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4839 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4840 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4842 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4843 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4844 do -d+all out of habit.
4846 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4847 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4850 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4851 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4852 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4853 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4854 record types that Exim uses.
4856 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4857 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4858 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4859 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4860 non-existent file that was broken.
4862 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4863 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4865 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4866 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4867 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4869 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4871 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4872 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4873 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4874 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4875 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4878 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4879 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4880 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4881 at a slight CPU cost.
4883 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4884 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4886 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4889 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4891 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4892 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4898 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4899 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4901 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4903 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4905 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4906 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4908 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4909 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4910 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4911 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4912 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4913 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4916 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4917 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4918 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4919 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4922 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4923 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4924 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4925 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4926 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4927 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4928 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4931 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4932 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4934 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4935 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4936 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4937 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4938 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4939 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4941 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4942 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4943 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4944 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4946 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4949 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4950 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4952 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4953 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4954 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4955 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4958 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4960 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4961 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4963 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4964 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4965 to what was transported.)
4967 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4969 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4970 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4971 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4972 spamd_address settings.
4974 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4975 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4976 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4977 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4978 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4980 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4982 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4983 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4984 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4985 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4986 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4988 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4989 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4991 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4992 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4993 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4994 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4995 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4996 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4997 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5000 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5001 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5002 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5003 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5004 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5005 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5006 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5009 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5011 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5012 driver and ACL definitions.
5014 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5015 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5017 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5018 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5019 understands it better than I do:
5021 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5022 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5024 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5025 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5026 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5027 => three warnings about OTP not working
5028 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5030 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5031 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5032 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5033 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5035 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5036 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5038 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5039 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5040 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5042 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5043 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5046 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5047 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5050 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5051 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5052 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5054 warn !verify = sender
5055 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5057 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5058 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5060 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5062 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5063 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5065 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5066 nomenclature these days.)
5068 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5069 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5071 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5072 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5073 . First host does not offer TLS;
5074 . First host accepts first address;
5075 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5076 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5077 . Second host accepts second address.
5078 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5079 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5082 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5083 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5084 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5085 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5086 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5088 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5089 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5091 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5092 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5094 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5095 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5096 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5098 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5099 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5102 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5104 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5105 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5106 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5107 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5108 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5109 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5110 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5112 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5113 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5114 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5115 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5116 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5118 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5119 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5122 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5123 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5124 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5125 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5126 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5127 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5129 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5131 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5132 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5133 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5134 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5135 printable escape sequences.
5137 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5138 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5141 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5142 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5145 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5146 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5147 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5148 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5149 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5151 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5152 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5153 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5155 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5157 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5158 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5161 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5162 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5163 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5164 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5165 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5166 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5167 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5168 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5169 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5172 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5173 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5174 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5175 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5179 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5180 ----------------------------------------
5182 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5183 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5184 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5185 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5186 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5187 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5190 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5191 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5192 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5193 historical information.
5199 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5201 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5202 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5204 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5205 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5208 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5209 filter fails to execute.
5211 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5212 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5213 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5214 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5215 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5217 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5219 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5220 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5221 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5222 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5224 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5225 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5226 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5227 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5228 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5230 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5232 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5234 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5235 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5236 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5237 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5239 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5240 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5241 sender verification.
5243 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5244 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5246 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5248 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5251 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5252 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5254 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5255 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5257 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5258 information about exactly what failed.
5260 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5262 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5263 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5264 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5266 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5267 It is now set to "smtps".
5269 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5270 ignore_target_hosts.
5272 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5273 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5274 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5275 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5278 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5279 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5280 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5282 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5283 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5284 wake it up if nothing else does.
5286 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5287 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5288 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5291 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5292 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5294 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5296 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5297 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5298 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5299 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5300 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5301 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5302 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5303 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5305 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5306 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5307 than one IP address.
5309 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5310 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5311 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5312 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5314 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5315 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5316 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5317 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5318 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5321 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5322 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5323 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5324 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5326 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5327 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5330 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5331 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5332 $sender_host_address.
5334 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5335 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5336 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5337 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5338 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5341 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5343 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5344 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5346 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5347 just the host names, not the priorities.
5349 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5350 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5351 controlled by a keyword.
5353 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5354 multiple records are returned.
5356 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5357 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5360 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5362 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5363 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5365 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5366 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5367 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5369 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5371 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5373 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5375 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5376 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5377 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5378 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5379 because the tests only now provoked it.
5381 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5382 (this can affect the format of dates).
5384 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5385 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5386 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5387 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5389 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5391 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5392 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5393 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5394 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5396 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5397 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5398 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5400 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5403 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5404 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5405 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5406 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5407 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5408 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5411 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5412 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5413 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5416 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5417 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5418 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5420 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5421 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5422 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5423 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5424 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5425 so I produce this patch..."
5427 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5428 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5431 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5432 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5433 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5434 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5437 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5439 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5440 long debug lines gets shown.
5442 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5443 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5445 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5447 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5448 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5449 of $primary_hostname.
5451 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5452 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5453 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5454 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5455 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5456 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5457 by change 4.50/55 above.
5459 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5460 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5461 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5462 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5463 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5464 running as the user.
5467 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5468 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5469 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5472 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5473 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5475 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5476 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5477 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5478 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5479 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5481 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5482 This has been fixed.
5484 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5485 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5486 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5487 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5490 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5492 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5493 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5494 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5495 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5497 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5498 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5500 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5501 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5502 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5504 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5505 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5506 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5509 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5510 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5511 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5513 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5514 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5515 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5516 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5518 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5519 during host lookups.
5521 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5522 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5524 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5526 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5527 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5528 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5529 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5530 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5533 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5534 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5536 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5537 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5538 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5540 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5542 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5543 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5544 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5545 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5546 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5547 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5550 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5551 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5552 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5553 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5554 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5556 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5559 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5561 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5562 "vacation" handling.
5564 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5565 OS variants using glibc.
5567 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5570 ----------------------------------------------------
5571 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5572 ----------------------------------------------------
5578 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5579 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5582 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5583 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5586 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5587 filter fails to execute.
5589 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5590 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5591 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5592 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5593 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5595 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5596 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5597 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5598 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5600 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5601 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5602 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5603 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5604 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5606 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5608 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5609 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5610 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5611 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5613 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5614 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5615 sender verification.
5617 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5618 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5620 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5621 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5623 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5624 ignore_target_hosts.
5626 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5627 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5628 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5629 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5632 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5633 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5634 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5636 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5637 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5638 wake it up if nothing else does.
5640 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5641 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5642 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5645 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5646 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5648 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5650 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5651 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5654 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5655 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5658 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5659 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5660 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5661 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5662 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5665 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5666 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5669 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5670 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5671 $sender_host_address.
5673 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5675 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5676 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5677 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5679 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5682 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5683 (this can affect the format of dates).
5685 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5686 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5687 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5688 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5690 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5691 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5692 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5694 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5695 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5696 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5697 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5699 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5700 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5701 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5703 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5706 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5707 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5708 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5709 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5710 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5711 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5714 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5715 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5716 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5717 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5720 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5721 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5722 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5723 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5724 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5725 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5726 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5728 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5729 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5730 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5731 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5732 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5733 running as the user.
5736 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5737 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5738 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5741 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5742 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5743 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5744 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5745 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5747 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5748 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5749 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5750 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5753 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5754 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5755 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5756 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5757 because the tests only now provoked it.
5763 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5764 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5765 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5766 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5767 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5768 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5769 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5771 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5772 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5775 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5777 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5779 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5780 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5783 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5784 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5785 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5786 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5787 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5789 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5790 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5792 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5794 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5796 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5799 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5800 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5802 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5803 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5804 affecting debugging statements).
5806 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5808 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5809 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5810 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5811 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5812 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5813 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5814 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5815 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5816 after the received time, and all would be well.
5818 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5819 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5820 condition in an expansion string.
5822 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5824 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5825 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5826 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5827 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5828 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5829 job under whatever limits there are.
5831 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5833 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5836 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5837 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5838 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5839 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5842 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5843 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5844 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5845 binary data in such strings.
5847 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5849 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5850 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5851 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5852 failure, which is pointless.
5854 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5856 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5858 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5859 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5860 Sender: header lines.
5862 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5863 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5864 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5866 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5867 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5868 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5869 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5870 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5873 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5874 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5875 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5876 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5877 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5879 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5880 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5881 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5884 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5885 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5887 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5888 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5890 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5892 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5894 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5896 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5899 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5901 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5903 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5904 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5905 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5906 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5908 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5909 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5915 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5916 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5917 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5919 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5920 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5921 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5922 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5923 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5924 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5926 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5927 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5928 verification failure".
5930 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5931 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5932 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5933 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5935 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5936 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5937 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5938 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5939 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5940 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5941 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5942 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5943 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5944 treated as a timeout.
5946 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5947 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5948 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5949 not set for Exim filters).
5951 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5952 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5953 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5955 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5957 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5958 try to make them clearer.
5960 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5961 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5963 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5965 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5967 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5968 only the Cygwin environment.
5970 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5971 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5972 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5973 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5974 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5976 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5977 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5978 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5979 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5980 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5981 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5982 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5984 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5985 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5987 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5989 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5990 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5991 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5993 To: susanne@some.where
5995 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5996 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5997 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5998 of addresses in From: header lines).
6000 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6001 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6002 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6004 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6005 treated as non-personal.
6007 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6008 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6010 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6012 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6014 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6015 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6016 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6018 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6019 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6021 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6022 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6023 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6024 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6025 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6026 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6028 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6029 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6030 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6031 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6032 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6033 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6034 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6035 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6037 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6039 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6040 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6042 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6043 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6044 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6046 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6047 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6049 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6050 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6051 rather than long int.
6053 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6055 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6061 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6062 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6063 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6064 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6065 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6066 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6072 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6073 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6075 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6076 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6077 socklen_t is defined.
6079 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6082 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6085 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6086 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6087 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6088 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6089 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6091 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6092 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6093 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6094 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6096 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6097 of flapping under certain conditions.
6099 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6100 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6101 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6103 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6105 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6107 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6108 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6109 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6110 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6112 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6113 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6114 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6115 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6116 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6117 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6118 preserved with the message after it was received.
6120 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6121 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6122 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6123 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6124 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6125 test suite worked just fine.
6127 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6128 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6129 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6131 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6132 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6135 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6136 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6137 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6138 does not fully solve it.
6140 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6141 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6142 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6143 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6144 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6146 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6147 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6148 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6150 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6151 string, for example:
6153 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6155 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6156 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6157 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6158 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6159 the routers could not see them.
6161 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6162 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6164 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6165 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6168 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6169 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6170 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6171 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6172 that needed quoting.
6174 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6175 was not being matched caselessly.
6177 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6180 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6181 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6182 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6183 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6184 when use_sender is false.
6186 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6188 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6190 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6192 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6193 the configuration file.
6195 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6196 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6198 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6200 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6201 bytes in the message body.
6203 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6204 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6207 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6209 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6211 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6212 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6213 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6214 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6221 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6222 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6224 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6225 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6226 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6227 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6228 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6230 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6231 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6233 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6234 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6235 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6237 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6238 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6239 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6241 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6244 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6245 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6246 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6247 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6248 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6249 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6250 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6256 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6257 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6258 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6259 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6260 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6261 default (and expected) setting.
6263 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6264 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6265 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6266 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6268 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6269 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6271 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6274 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6275 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6276 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6277 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6278 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6279 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6281 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6282 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6283 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6285 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6286 part (NOT match_host).
6288 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6290 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6291 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6292 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6293 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6294 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6295 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6296 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6297 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6298 the same named file.
6300 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6301 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6304 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6305 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6306 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6307 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6310 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6311 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6312 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6314 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6316 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6318 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6320 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6321 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6323 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6324 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6325 before starting the TLS session.
6327 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6329 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6330 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6332 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6333 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6334 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6335 colon in the middle).
6341 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6342 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6343 multiple configurations are in use.
6345 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6346 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6347 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6348 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6349 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6350 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6352 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6353 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6355 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6356 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6357 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6359 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6360 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6363 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6364 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6366 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6368 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6369 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6371 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6379 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6380 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6381 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6382 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6383 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6385 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6388 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6389 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6390 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6391 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6392 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6393 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6395 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6396 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6397 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6398 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6399 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6400 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6401 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6404 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6405 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6406 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6407 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6408 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6410 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6412 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6413 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6414 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6416 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6418 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6419 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6420 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6423 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6424 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6426 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6427 Three changes have been made:
6429 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6430 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6431 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6432 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6433 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6435 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6438 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6439 the modified behaviour.
6445 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6448 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6449 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6451 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6452 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6453 try to track down a specific problem.
6455 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6456 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6457 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6459 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6462 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6463 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6464 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6465 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6466 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6467 some earlier ones do not.
6469 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6471 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6472 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6473 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6474 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6475 address literals are enabled, of course).
6477 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6479 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6480 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6481 by a command such as
6485 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6487 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6489 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6490 remained set. It is now erased.
6492 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6493 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6495 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6496 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6497 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6498 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6499 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6500 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6501 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6502 appropriate error code.
6504 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6505 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6506 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6507 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6508 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6509 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6511 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6512 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6513 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6515 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6516 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6517 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6518 terminate the header.
6520 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6521 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6522 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6524 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6525 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6526 (4.30/29). In particular:
6528 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6531 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6532 to write a maildirsize file.
6534 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6535 the transport, the new value overrides.
6537 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6540 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6541 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6542 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6545 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6546 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6547 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6550 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6551 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6552 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6554 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6555 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6558 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6559 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6560 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6562 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6564 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6566 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6568 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6569 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6572 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6573 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6574 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6575 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6576 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6577 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6578 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6581 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6582 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6583 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6584 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6585 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6588 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6589 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6590 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6591 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6592 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6593 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6594 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6595 cached value only when the same options are set.
6597 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6599 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6600 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6601 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6602 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6603 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6605 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6606 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6607 it is clearly obsolete.
6609 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6612 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6613 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6614 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6617 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6618 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6619 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6620 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6621 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6623 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6624 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6625 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6626 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6628 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6630 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6632 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6633 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6636 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6637 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6638 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6639 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6640 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6641 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6644 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6645 with the -f command-line option.
6647 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6648 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6649 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6650 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6651 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6652 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6654 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6655 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6658 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6659 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6660 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6661 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6662 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6663 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6664 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6665 buffer is too small.
6667 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6668 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6670 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6671 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6672 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6673 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6674 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6675 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6676 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6677 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6678 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6680 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6681 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6682 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6684 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6685 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6688 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6689 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6690 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6691 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6692 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6694 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6695 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6696 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6697 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6700 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6702 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6704 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6705 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6707 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6708 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6709 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6711 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6712 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6713 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6714 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6715 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6717 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6718 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6719 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6720 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6721 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6722 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6723 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6725 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6726 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6727 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6728 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6729 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6730 the test of how many are available.
6732 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6733 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6734 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6735 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6736 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6737 new message is started.
6739 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6740 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6742 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6743 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6745 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6746 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6747 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6750 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6751 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6752 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6753 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6754 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6755 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6756 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6758 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6759 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6760 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6761 interpreted as octal.
6763 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6766 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6767 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6768 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6769 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6770 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6771 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6773 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6774 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6775 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6776 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6778 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6779 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6780 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6781 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6783 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6784 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6787 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6788 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6790 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6792 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6793 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6794 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6795 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6797 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6798 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6799 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6800 supplied", which is not helpful.
6802 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6803 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6804 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6806 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6807 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6808 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6809 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6810 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6811 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6812 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6813 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6815 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6816 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6817 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6818 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6819 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6821 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6822 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6823 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6824 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6825 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6826 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6828 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6829 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6830 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6832 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6834 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6835 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6836 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6839 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6841 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6842 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6843 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6844 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6845 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6846 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6847 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6848 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6850 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6851 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6852 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6853 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6854 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6856 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6859 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6860 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6861 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6862 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6863 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6864 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6865 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6866 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6867 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6873 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6874 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6875 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6877 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6880 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6881 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6882 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6884 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6885 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6886 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6887 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6888 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6889 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6891 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6892 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6893 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6894 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6895 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6896 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6897 the Exim test suite.
6899 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6900 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6901 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6902 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6904 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6905 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6906 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6907 specify it in this variable.
6909 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6910 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6911 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6912 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6914 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6915 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6916 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6917 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6919 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6920 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6921 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6922 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6923 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6925 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6927 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6930 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6931 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6932 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6933 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6934 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6936 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6937 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6939 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6940 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6941 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6942 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6943 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6945 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6946 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6948 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6949 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6950 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6952 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6953 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6955 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6956 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6958 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6959 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6960 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6962 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6963 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6965 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6966 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6967 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6968 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6970 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6972 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6973 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6974 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6975 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6977 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6979 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6980 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6982 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6984 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6985 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6986 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6987 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6988 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6989 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6991 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6993 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6994 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6997 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6999 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7000 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7002 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7003 550 Sender verify failed
7005 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7006 the final line of the response.
7008 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7009 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7010 all other user lookups.
7012 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7015 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7016 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7017 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7018 result into an int without checking.
7020 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7021 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7022 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7024 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7025 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7026 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7027 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7029 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7032 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7033 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7035 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7036 to the empty sender.
7038 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7039 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7040 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7041 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7042 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7043 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7044 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7047 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7048 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7049 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7050 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7053 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7054 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7056 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7059 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7060 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7062 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7064 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7065 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7068 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7069 as soon as it is encountered.
7071 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7073 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7076 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7077 recognizes a tab character.
7079 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7080 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7081 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7082 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7084 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7086 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7089 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7091 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7093 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7094 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7097 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7098 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7099 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7100 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7101 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7103 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7104 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7106 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7107 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7108 list (.included file names were always shown).
7110 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7111 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7112 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7115 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7116 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7118 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7120 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7122 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7124 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7125 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7126 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7127 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7128 failures to open the logs.
7130 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7131 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7132 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7133 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7134 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7135 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7136 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7142 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7143 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7144 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7147 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7148 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7149 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7151 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7152 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7153 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7155 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7156 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7157 causing some misleading effects.
7159 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7160 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7161 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7163 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7164 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7165 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7166 queue-runner function directly.
7172 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7175 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7176 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7177 was always written to the default place.
7179 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7180 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7181 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7183 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7185 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7187 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7188 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7189 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7191 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7192 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7195 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7196 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7197 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7199 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7200 command line option is disabled.
7202 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7203 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7205 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7207 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7209 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7210 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7212 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7214 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7215 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7216 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7217 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7218 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7219 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7221 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7222 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7225 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7226 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7228 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7229 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7231 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7232 received was valid base64.
7234 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7235 name of the variable that was being set.
7237 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7239 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7240 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7241 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7242 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7243 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7244 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7246 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7248 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7249 nor realm was specified.
7251 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7252 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7253 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7254 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7256 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7257 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7258 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7260 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7261 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7262 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7264 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7265 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7266 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7267 some systems use these upper case variants.
7269 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7270 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7271 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7272 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7274 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7276 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7277 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7279 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7280 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7283 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7285 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7286 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7287 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7288 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7290 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7293 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7294 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7295 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7297 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7298 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7300 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7301 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7302 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7303 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7305 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7306 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7307 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7309 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7311 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7312 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7313 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7314 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7317 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7318 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7319 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7321 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7323 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7324 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7326 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7327 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7329 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7330 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7331 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7332 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7333 when emails are that large.
7340 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7341 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7343 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7344 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7345 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7347 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7348 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7349 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7351 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7352 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7353 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7354 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7355 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7357 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7358 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7359 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7360 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7361 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7364 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7365 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7366 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7367 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7368 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7369 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7370 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7371 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7372 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7373 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7374 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7375 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7376 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7377 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7379 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7380 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7383 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7384 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7385 error should be diagnosed.
7387 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7388 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7389 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7390 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7391 appeared instead of "NULL".
7393 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7394 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7395 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7396 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7397 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7398 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7401 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7402 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7403 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7409 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7410 or receiver verification errors.
7412 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7415 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7416 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7417 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7418 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7420 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7421 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7422 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7423 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7424 shouldn't happen again.
7426 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7427 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7428 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7430 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7431 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7433 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7435 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7436 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7438 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7439 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7442 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7443 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7444 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7446 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7447 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7448 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7449 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7451 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7452 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7453 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7454 to define what should happen).
7456 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7457 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7458 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7460 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7462 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7464 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7465 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7467 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7468 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7469 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7470 structure in all cases.
7472 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7473 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7474 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7475 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7477 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7478 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7481 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7482 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7484 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7485 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7487 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7488 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7489 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7491 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7492 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7493 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7495 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7496 the book and for uniformity.
7498 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7500 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7501 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7502 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7503 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7504 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7505 non-existent command as the problem.
7507 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7508 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7509 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7511 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7513 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7514 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7515 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7517 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7518 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7519 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7520 timestamps using strftime().
7522 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7523 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7525 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7526 transport-time rewrites.
7528 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7529 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7530 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7531 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7533 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7534 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7536 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7537 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7538 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7539 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7542 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7543 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7544 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7545 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7546 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7547 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7548 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7550 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7551 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7552 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7553 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7554 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7556 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7557 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7558 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7559 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7560 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7561 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7562 remaining text gets split now.
7564 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7565 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7566 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7567 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7569 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7570 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7571 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7572 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7575 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7576 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7577 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7578 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7579 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7580 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7581 passed through if needed.
7583 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7584 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7585 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7586 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7587 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7588 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7590 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7591 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7592 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7593 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7594 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7596 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7597 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7598 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7599 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7600 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7602 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7603 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7606 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7607 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7608 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7609 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7610 mayhem of various kinds.
7612 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7613 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7614 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7615 the right test for positive values.
7617 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7618 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7619 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7620 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7621 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7622 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7623 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7624 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7625 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7626 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7629 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7632 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7633 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7636 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7637 the existing equality matching.
7639 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7640 dealing with inode numbers.
7642 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7643 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7644 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7646 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7647 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7648 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7649 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7652 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7653 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7654 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7655 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7656 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7657 relay addresses has also been removed.
7659 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7661 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7662 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7663 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7665 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7666 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7667 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7668 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7669 processing applies to CR:
7671 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7672 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7674 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7675 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7676 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7677 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7679 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7680 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7681 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7683 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7684 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7685 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7686 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7687 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7688 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7691 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7694 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7695 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7696 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7697 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7700 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7702 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7704 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7706 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7707 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7708 not considered personal.
7710 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7712 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7714 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7716 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7717 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7718 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7719 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7720 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7721 header lines, and spool format errors.
7723 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7724 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7725 for more flexibility.
7727 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7728 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7729 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7731 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7734 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7735 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7736 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7737 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7738 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7739 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7740 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7741 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7742 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7744 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7745 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7746 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7747 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7748 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7749 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7750 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7752 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7753 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7754 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7756 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7757 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7758 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7759 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7760 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7761 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7762 instead of killing the process with assert().
7764 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7765 than Unicode encoding.
7767 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7768 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7769 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7770 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7772 77. Added process_log_path.
7774 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7775 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7777 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7778 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7780 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7781 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7782 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7784 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7785 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7786 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7787 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7788 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7791 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7792 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7795 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7796 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7797 they will be used during message reception.
7803 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.