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.
20 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
21 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
22 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
24 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
25 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
26 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
34 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
35 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
37 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
39 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
40 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
43 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
44 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
45 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
47 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
49 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
51 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
52 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
53 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
55 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
56 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
57 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
59 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
60 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
62 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
63 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
66 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
67 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
68 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
69 should both provide the file and set the option.
70 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
72 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
73 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
75 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
76 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
77 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
78 Authentication-Results: header.
80 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
81 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
82 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
83 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
85 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
86 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
87 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
88 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
89 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
90 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
91 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
93 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
94 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
95 copies while it is still usable.
97 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
98 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
99 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
101 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
102 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
104 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
105 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
106 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
107 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
109 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
110 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
111 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
114 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
115 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
116 - the pipe transport command
117 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
118 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
120 - paths used by single-key lookups
121 Previously this was permitted.
123 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
124 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
125 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
126 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
128 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
129 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
130 support larger malloc requests.
132 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
133 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
134 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
135 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
137 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
138 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
139 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
140 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
143 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
144 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
145 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
146 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
147 data being length-specified.
149 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
150 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
151 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
152 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
154 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
155 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
156 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
157 not being properly tracked.
159 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
160 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
161 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
162 minute could be seen.
164 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
165 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
166 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
168 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
169 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
171 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
172 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
175 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
177 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
178 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
180 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
181 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
182 filesystem as sufficient validation.
184 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
185 argument is supplied.
187 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
188 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
189 access under Exim's current working directory.
191 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
192 Previously no event was raised.
194 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
195 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
196 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
199 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
200 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
201 the size of the signature hash.
203 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
204 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
206 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
207 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
208 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
209 dropped between messages.
211 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
212 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
213 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
214 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
216 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
217 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
218 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
219 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
220 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
221 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
222 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
223 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
224 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
226 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
227 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
228 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
230 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
231 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
238 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
239 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
241 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
242 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
245 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
248 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
250 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
252 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
253 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
255 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
256 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
257 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
258 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
259 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
260 suitably configured).
262 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
263 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
265 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
266 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
269 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
270 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
272 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
273 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
274 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
275 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
278 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
279 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
280 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
282 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
285 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
286 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
288 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
289 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
290 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
291 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
294 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
295 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
296 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
297 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
300 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
301 shared (NFS) environment.
303 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
304 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
307 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
308 on some platforms for bit 31.
310 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
311 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
312 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
313 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
314 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
315 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
316 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
317 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
319 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
321 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
322 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
324 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
325 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
328 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
329 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
332 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
333 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
334 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
337 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
338 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
339 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
341 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
342 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
343 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
344 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
345 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
347 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
350 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
351 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
352 be requested on all coneections.
354 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
355 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
357 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
359 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
360 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
361 one for these; the option was ignored.
363 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
364 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
365 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
366 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
368 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
369 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
370 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
373 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
374 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
375 error ignored was made.
377 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
379 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
380 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
381 values, to catch one form of exploit.
383 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
384 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
385 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
387 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
388 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
391 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
392 them in our smtp response.
394 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
395 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
396 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
397 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
398 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
400 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
401 link count into consideration.
403 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
404 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
406 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
407 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
408 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
411 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
413 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
415 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
417 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
418 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
419 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
420 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
422 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
424 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
425 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
428 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
429 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
430 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
432 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
433 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
434 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
436 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
437 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
438 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
439 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
440 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
441 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
442 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
443 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
445 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
446 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
447 resulted in an indefinite loop.
449 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
450 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
451 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
457 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
458 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
460 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
461 non-signal-safe functions being used.
463 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
464 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
465 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
467 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
468 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
469 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
471 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
472 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
473 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
474 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
475 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
478 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
479 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
481 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
482 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
483 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
484 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
485 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
486 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
487 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
489 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
490 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
492 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
495 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
496 Previously this would segfault.
498 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
501 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
502 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
503 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
504 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
505 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
506 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
508 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
510 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
511 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
512 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
513 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
515 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
517 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
518 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
519 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
520 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
522 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
524 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
526 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
527 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
528 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
530 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
531 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
532 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
534 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
536 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
537 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
538 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
539 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
541 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
542 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
543 promised '?' replacement.
545 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
547 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
548 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
549 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
550 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
551 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
553 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
554 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
555 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
557 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
558 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
559 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
561 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
562 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
563 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
565 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
566 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
567 hope that is portable enough.
569 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
570 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
571 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
572 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
574 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
575 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
576 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
578 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
579 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
580 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
581 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
583 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
584 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
586 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
587 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
588 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
589 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
591 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
592 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
593 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
595 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
596 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
597 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
598 the previous G, M, k.
600 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
601 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
604 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
605 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
606 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
607 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
609 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
610 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
612 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
613 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
614 off past the nul-terimation.
616 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
617 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
618 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
619 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
620 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
622 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
624 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
625 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
626 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
629 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
630 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
632 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
633 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
634 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
636 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
637 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
638 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
640 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
641 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
647 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
648 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
649 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
650 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
651 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
652 be defined in redis_servers.
654 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
655 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
657 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
658 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
659 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
660 extant use locations.
662 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
663 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
665 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
666 Previously only the last row was returned.
668 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
669 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
670 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
671 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
674 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
675 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
676 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
677 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
678 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
679 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
680 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
681 Main pool for expansions.
682 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
683 active in the testsuite.
684 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
686 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
687 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
688 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
689 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
692 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
693 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
696 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
697 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
698 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
700 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
701 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
702 ClamAV interface method is removed.
704 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
705 rows affected is given instead).
707 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
708 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
710 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
711 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
712 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
713 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
714 for all multi-message initiating connections.
716 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
717 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
718 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
720 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
721 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
722 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
723 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
726 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
727 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
728 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
731 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
733 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
734 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
736 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
737 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
738 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
740 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
741 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
742 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
745 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
746 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
748 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
749 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
750 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
752 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
753 for the build is renamed.
755 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
756 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
757 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
759 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
760 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
761 result replacing the original.
763 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
764 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
765 and the resources needed to be freed.
767 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
769 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
772 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
773 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
774 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
775 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
777 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
778 length value. Previously this would segfault.
780 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
781 newer versions of the scanner.
783 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
784 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
785 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
786 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
787 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
788 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
789 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
791 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
792 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
793 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
794 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
795 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
796 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
797 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
798 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
799 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
800 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
802 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
803 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
805 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
807 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
808 allows proper process termination in container environments.
810 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
811 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
813 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
814 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
815 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
817 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
818 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
819 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
820 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
822 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
823 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
826 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
827 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
829 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
830 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
831 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
832 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
833 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
835 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
836 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
839 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
840 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
842 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
845 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
846 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
847 "bare" representation.
849 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
850 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
851 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
852 corrupted the output.
858 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
859 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
860 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
861 pairs of long lines into single ones.
863 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
864 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
866 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
867 This permits better logging.
869 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
870 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
871 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
872 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
873 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
874 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
876 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
877 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
880 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
881 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
882 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
884 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
885 than 255 are no longer allowed.
887 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
888 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
889 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
890 client, there is no benefit for these.
891 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
892 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
893 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
896 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
897 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
899 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
900 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
901 erroneously found still-pending ones.
903 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
904 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
906 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
907 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
908 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
909 signature and again for transmission.
911 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
912 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
913 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
915 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
916 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
917 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
918 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
919 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
920 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
921 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
923 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
924 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
925 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
926 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
928 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
929 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
930 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
931 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
932 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
933 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
936 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
937 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
938 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
939 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
942 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
943 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
944 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
945 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
948 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
949 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
952 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
953 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
954 banner-time rejection.
956 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
959 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
960 is the name of a transport.
963 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
965 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
966 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
968 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
969 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
970 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
973 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
974 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
975 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
976 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
978 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
979 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
980 initial verify call returned a defer.
982 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
983 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
985 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
986 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
988 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
989 if present. Previously it was ignored.
991 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
992 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
994 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
995 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
998 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
999 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1001 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1002 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1003 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1005 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1006 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1007 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1008 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1010 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1011 and confused the parent.
1013 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1014 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1016 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1019 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1020 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1021 out-of-order delivery.
1023 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1024 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1025 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1028 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1029 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1032 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1033 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1034 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1036 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1037 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1038 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1039 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1040 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1041 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1043 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1044 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1045 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1047 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1048 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1049 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1051 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1052 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1053 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1054 though a different problem.
1060 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1061 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1063 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1065 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1066 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1068 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1069 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1071 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1072 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1073 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1074 before acknowledging the chunk.
1076 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1077 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1078 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1080 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1081 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1082 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1085 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1086 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1087 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1089 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1090 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1092 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1093 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1094 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1095 body hash calculated value.
1097 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1098 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1099 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1101 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1103 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1104 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1106 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1107 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1108 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1110 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1111 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1112 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1113 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1114 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1115 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1117 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1118 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1119 past that check, despite the cost.
1121 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1122 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1123 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1125 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1126 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1127 TLS library to consume.
1129 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1131 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1133 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1134 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1135 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1136 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1137 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1138 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1139 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1141 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1143 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1145 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1146 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1147 should be warning-free.
1149 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1151 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1152 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1154 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1155 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1156 general solution here.
1158 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1159 already-broken messages in the queue.
1161 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1163 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1169 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1170 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1172 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1173 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1174 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1176 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1177 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1178 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1179 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1180 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1181 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1182 if one fails this test.
1183 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1184 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1186 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1187 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1189 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1190 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1192 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1193 in rewrites and routers.
1195 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1196 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1198 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1199 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1201 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1203 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1206 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1207 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1208 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1209 connection after a verify cache hit.
1210 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1212 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1213 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1215 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1216 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1217 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1218 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1219 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1221 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1222 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1224 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1225 Previously they were not counted.
1227 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1228 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1229 that needed the lookup.
1231 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1232 distinguished as "(=".
1234 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1235 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1237 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1239 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1240 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1242 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1243 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1245 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1246 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1249 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1250 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1251 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1252 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1254 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1256 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1257 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1258 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1260 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1261 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1262 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1265 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1266 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1267 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1270 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1271 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1272 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1274 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1275 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1278 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1280 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1281 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1283 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1284 are not in the system include path.
1286 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1287 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1288 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1289 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1291 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1292 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1293 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1295 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1297 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1298 an incoming connection.
1300 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1303 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1304 fallback to "prime256v1".
1306 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1307 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1313 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1314 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1315 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1316 client dropping the TLS connection.
1318 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1319 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1321 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1322 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1323 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1324 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1327 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1328 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1329 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1330 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1331 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1332 check on the next write.
1334 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1335 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1336 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1337 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1338 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1340 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1341 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1343 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1344 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1345 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1347 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1348 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1349 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1350 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1352 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1353 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1355 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1356 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1358 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1359 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1360 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1363 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1365 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1367 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1369 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1370 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1372 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1373 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1375 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1377 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1378 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1380 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1382 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1383 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1385 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1387 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1388 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1389 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1390 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1391 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1392 they will retry in-clear.
1393 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1394 at installation time.
1396 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1397 with the $config_file variable.
1399 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1400 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1401 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1402 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1403 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1405 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1406 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1407 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1408 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1409 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1411 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1413 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1414 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1415 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1416 list order is no longer honoured.
1418 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1419 for DKIM processing.
1421 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1422 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1424 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1425 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1426 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1427 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1429 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1430 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1432 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1433 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1435 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1436 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1438 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1440 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1441 cached by the daemon.
1443 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1444 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1446 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1447 keys are given for lookup.
1449 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1450 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1451 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1452 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1454 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1455 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1456 server-side so match that on older versions.
1458 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1459 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1460 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1462 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1463 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1465 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1466 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1467 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1468 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1469 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1470 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1471 initial truncated version.
1473 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1475 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1477 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1478 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1480 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1482 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1484 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1485 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1488 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1489 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1492 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1493 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1495 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1496 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1499 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1500 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1501 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1503 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1504 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1505 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1506 extraction. Accept either.
1512 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1515 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1517 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1520 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1521 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1522 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1523 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1525 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1526 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1527 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1529 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1530 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1531 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1534 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1537 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1538 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1539 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1540 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1541 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1543 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1544 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1545 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1547 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1549 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1550 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1552 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1553 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1555 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1558 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1559 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1561 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1562 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1563 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1565 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1566 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1567 specify a port-range.
1569 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1570 timeout value per server.
1572 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1573 now have the list separator specified.
1575 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1578 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1581 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1583 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1584 rather than the verbs used.
1586 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1587 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1589 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1591 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1592 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1594 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1595 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1597 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1598 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1600 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1602 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1604 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1605 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1606 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1607 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1609 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1611 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1612 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1614 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1615 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1617 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1619 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1621 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1623 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1624 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1626 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1627 added for tls authenticator.
1629 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1635 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1636 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1637 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1638 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1639 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1640 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1641 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1643 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1644 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1645 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1646 function when detected.
1648 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1649 cause callback expansion.
1651 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1652 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1653 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1654 instead of bool when processing it.
1656 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1657 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1659 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1661 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1663 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1665 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1666 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1668 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1669 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1670 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1671 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1672 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1673 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1675 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1676 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1679 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1680 version 3.3.6 or later.
1682 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1683 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1684 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1685 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1686 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1687 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1690 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1691 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1693 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1694 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1695 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1698 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1699 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1700 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1702 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1703 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1705 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1706 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1709 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1711 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1712 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1714 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1715 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1718 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1720 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1723 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1724 output list separator was used.
1729 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1730 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1733 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1734 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1736 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1738 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1739 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1745 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1747 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1748 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1749 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1750 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1751 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1752 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1754 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1755 utilities have not been installed.
1757 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1758 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1760 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1761 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1763 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1764 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1765 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1766 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1768 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1770 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1771 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1773 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1776 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1778 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1779 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1780 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1782 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1783 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1784 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1785 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1786 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1787 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1789 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1791 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1792 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1794 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1797 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1799 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1801 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1802 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1804 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1805 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1807 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1809 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1811 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1812 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1814 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1815 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1816 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1818 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1819 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1820 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1823 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1825 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1826 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1829 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1830 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1833 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1834 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1836 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1837 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1839 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1841 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1842 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1843 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1845 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1846 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1848 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1849 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1852 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1853 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1854 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1856 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1858 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1859 Christian Aistleitner.
1861 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1863 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1864 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1866 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1867 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1869 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1870 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1872 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1873 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1875 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1876 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1878 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1879 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1880 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1882 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1884 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1885 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1888 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1890 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1891 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1898 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1900 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1901 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1903 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1906 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1907 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1910 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1912 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1913 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1914 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1915 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1916 using channel bindings instead).
1918 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1919 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1920 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1921 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1922 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1925 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1927 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1929 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1930 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1932 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1933 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1934 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1936 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1938 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1940 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1941 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1943 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1945 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1947 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1949 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1950 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1952 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1954 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1955 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1958 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1959 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1961 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1962 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1965 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1967 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1969 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1970 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1972 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1975 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1976 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1978 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1979 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1981 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1983 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1985 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1988 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1991 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1993 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1994 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1995 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1996 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1998 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2000 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2001 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2002 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2003 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2006 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2007 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2008 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2010 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2011 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2012 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2013 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2015 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2016 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2017 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2018 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2019 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2020 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2021 delivery, as in LMTP.
2023 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2024 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2026 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2028 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2032 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2033 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2034 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2035 username as equal to the username.
2037 This change corrects that bug.
2039 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2040 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2041 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2043 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2045 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2046 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2047 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2048 NULL dereference and crash.
2050 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2052 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2053 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2054 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2056 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2058 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2059 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2060 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2061 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2062 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2063 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2064 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2065 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2066 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2067 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2068 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2070 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2071 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2073 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2074 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2077 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2078 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2079 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2080 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2081 an empty string is now equivalent.
2083 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2084 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2085 not performing validation itself.
2087 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2088 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2090 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2093 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2095 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2096 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2097 other false fix of the same issue.
2098 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2101 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2102 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2104 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2105 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2106 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2108 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2109 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2110 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2112 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2114 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2116 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2117 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2119 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2122 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2123 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2124 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2125 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2126 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2128 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2129 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2131 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2132 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2135 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2136 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2137 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2138 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2140 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2142 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2143 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2144 from multiple comments on this bug.
2146 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2148 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2149 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2152 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2153 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2155 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2156 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2162 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2164 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2170 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2171 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2172 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2174 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2176 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2179 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2181 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2183 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2185 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2186 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2188 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2189 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2191 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2192 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2194 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2195 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2196 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2198 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2200 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2201 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2203 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2205 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2207 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2208 non-compliant senders.
2209 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2211 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2212 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2213 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2215 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2216 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2217 in spool file corruption.
2219 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2220 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2221 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2224 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2225 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2226 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2228 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2229 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2231 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2233 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2235 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2237 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2238 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2239 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2241 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2242 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2243 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2244 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2246 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2247 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2249 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2250 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2251 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2252 resolver implementation change.
2254 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2255 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2257 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2259 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2261 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2262 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2264 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2265 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2267 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2268 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2270 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2271 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2272 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2273 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2274 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2276 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2278 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2279 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2280 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2282 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2284 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2285 read-only, out of scope).
2286 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2288 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2289 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2290 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2291 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2293 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2295 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2296 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2297 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2298 real issues in debug logging.
2300 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2301 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2303 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2304 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2305 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2307 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2308 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2309 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2312 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2313 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2315 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2316 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2317 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2318 needs to override this, it can.
2320 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2321 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2322 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2324 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2325 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2326 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2327 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2329 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2335 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2336 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2338 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2340 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2343 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2344 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2346 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2347 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2348 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2350 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2351 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2352 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2353 not safe for signals.
2355 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2356 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2357 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2358 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2361 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2363 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2364 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2365 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2366 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2367 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2369 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2370 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2371 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2372 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2373 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2374 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2376 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2377 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2378 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2379 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2381 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2382 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2383 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2384 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2386 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2387 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2388 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2389 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2390 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2391 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2392 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2393 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2394 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2396 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2397 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2398 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2399 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2401 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2402 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2403 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2404 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2405 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2406 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2407 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2408 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2409 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2410 details in the main documentation.
2412 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2414 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2416 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2417 repository when doing development or release builds.
2419 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2420 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2422 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2423 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2426 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2428 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2429 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2431 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2432 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2434 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2435 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2437 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2438 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2440 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2441 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2443 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2445 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2448 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2449 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2450 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2452 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2454 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2456 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2457 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2463 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2465 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2466 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2468 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2470 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2472 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2475 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2476 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2478 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2479 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2481 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2482 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2484 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2487 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2488 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2490 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2491 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2492 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2493 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2495 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2496 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2502 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2505 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2506 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2507 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2509 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2510 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2512 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2513 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2514 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2516 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2517 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2519 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2520 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2522 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2523 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2525 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2526 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2528 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2529 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2531 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2534 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2535 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2537 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2538 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2540 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2541 SQL string expansion failure details.
2542 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2544 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2545 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2547 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2548 extern declarations in function scope.
2549 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2551 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2552 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2553 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2556 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2557 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2559 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2560 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2562 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2563 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2565 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2566 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2568 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2569 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2572 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2574 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2576 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2577 Patch by Simon Arlott
2579 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2580 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2586 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2587 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2589 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2590 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2592 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2594 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2595 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2596 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2598 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2599 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2600 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2602 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2603 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2604 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2605 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2607 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2608 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2609 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2610 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2612 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2613 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2614 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2617 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2620 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2621 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2622 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2623 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2624 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2630 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2631 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2632 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2634 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2635 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2637 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2639 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2641 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2643 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2645 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2647 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2648 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2649 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2650 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2652 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2653 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2654 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2655 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2656 more caution in buffer sizes.
2658 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2660 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2662 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2664 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2666 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2668 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2670 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2672 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2673 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2674 ignore trailing whitespace.
2676 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2678 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2681 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2682 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2684 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2685 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2686 Notification from John Horne.
2688 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2691 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2692 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2695 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2698 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2699 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2700 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2702 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2703 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2704 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2707 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2708 option (effectively making it always true).
2710 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2711 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2713 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2714 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2716 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2717 run-time user, instead of root.
2719 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2720 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2722 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2723 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2726 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2727 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2728 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2730 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2732 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2738 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2739 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2742 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2743 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2746 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2747 Patch from Alain Williams
2749 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2751 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2752 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2754 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2755 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2757 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2759 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2761 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2762 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2764 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2766 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2768 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2769 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2770 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2772 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2773 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2775 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2776 Patch by Simon Arlott
2778 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2779 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2785 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2787 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2789 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2791 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2793 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2799 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2800 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2802 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2803 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2806 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2807 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2808 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2810 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2811 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2813 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2814 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2815 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2816 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2818 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2819 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2820 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2822 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2824 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2826 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2827 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2829 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2831 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2832 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2833 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2834 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2836 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2837 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2839 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2841 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2843 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2844 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2846 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2847 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2849 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2850 that they are available at delivery time.
2852 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2854 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2855 incoming_port log selectors.
2857 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2858 setting expands to an empty string.
2860 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2861 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2863 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2864 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2866 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2867 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2869 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2870 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2872 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2873 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2875 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2876 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2878 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2880 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2881 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2883 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2884 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2886 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2888 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2889 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2891 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2893 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2895 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2898 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2899 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2901 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2902 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2904 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2905 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2907 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2908 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2910 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2911 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2913 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2914 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2916 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2917 plus update to original patch.
2919 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2921 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2922 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2924 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2926 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2928 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2930 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2932 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2933 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2935 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2936 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2938 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2939 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2941 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2942 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2944 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2946 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2948 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2950 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2956 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2957 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2958 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2960 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2961 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2962 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2963 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2964 build errors in sieve.c.
2966 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2967 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2968 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2970 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2972 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2974 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2976 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2982 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2984 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2985 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2986 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2987 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2988 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2989 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2990 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2991 for iplsearch lookups.
2993 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2994 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2995 previously such lookups could never work.
2997 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2998 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2999 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3001 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3004 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3005 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3006 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3007 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3008 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3009 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3011 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3012 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3014 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3015 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3016 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3017 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3018 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3019 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3021 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3024 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3026 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3027 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3030 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3031 by clients under certain conditions.
3033 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3034 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3036 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3038 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3039 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3041 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3043 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3045 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3047 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3048 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3050 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3052 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3053 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3055 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3057 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3059 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3060 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3061 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3062 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3064 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3065 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3066 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3068 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3069 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3071 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3073 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3075 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3077 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3078 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3079 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3085 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3086 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3089 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3090 issue a MAIL command.
3092 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3094 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3096 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3097 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3098 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3099 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3100 item. This has been fixed.
3102 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3103 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3105 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3106 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3108 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3109 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3110 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3112 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3114 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3115 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3116 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3117 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3118 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3120 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3121 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3122 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3124 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3125 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3126 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3127 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3129 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3131 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3133 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3134 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3135 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3136 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3137 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3139 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3141 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3142 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3143 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3146 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3148 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3150 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3152 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3154 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3156 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3157 no_callout_flush is set.
3159 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3160 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3161 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3164 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3166 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3167 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3168 other ACL rejections are.
3170 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3171 with slight modification.
3173 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3174 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3176 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3177 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3180 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3181 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3183 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3185 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3186 expansion side effects.
3188 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3189 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3190 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3193 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3194 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3195 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3197 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3198 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3199 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3200 were accidentally chopped off.
3202 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3203 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3204 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3205 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3206 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3207 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3208 pipelining has not been advertised.
3210 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3212 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3213 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3214 This has been fixed.
3216 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3217 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3218 reported on Solaris.
3220 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3221 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3222 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3223 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3224 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3225 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3226 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3228 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3231 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3233 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3235 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3236 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3237 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3238 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3239 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3240 criteria to be more general.
3242 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3243 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3244 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3245 host_all_ignored option.
3247 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3248 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3249 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3250 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3251 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3252 is what is supposed to happen).
3254 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3255 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3256 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3257 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3258 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3261 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3262 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3263 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3264 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3265 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3266 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3269 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3271 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3272 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3274 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3275 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3277 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3279 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3281 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3282 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3283 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3284 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3285 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3286 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3287 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3288 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3289 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3290 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3291 least in a lot of common cases.
3293 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3294 advertised in response to EHLO.
3300 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3301 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3303 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3304 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3306 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3307 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3308 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3310 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3311 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3312 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3313 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3314 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3320 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3321 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3324 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3325 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3326 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3328 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3329 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3330 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3331 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3332 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3333 rather than extend the field.
3339 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3340 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3341 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3342 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3345 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3346 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3347 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3349 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3350 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3351 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3353 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3354 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3355 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3358 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3359 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3360 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3361 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3362 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3363 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3364 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3365 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3366 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3367 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3368 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3370 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3373 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3374 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3375 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3376 ignores EPIPE as well.
3378 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3379 (quoted-printable decoding).
3381 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3382 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3384 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3386 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3388 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3390 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3391 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3393 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3396 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3397 miscellaneous code fixes
3399 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3402 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3403 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3404 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3405 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3406 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3407 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3408 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3409 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3411 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3412 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3413 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3414 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3416 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3417 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3418 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3419 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3420 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3421 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3422 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3423 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3424 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3426 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3429 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3430 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3431 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3432 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3433 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3434 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3435 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3436 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3438 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3439 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3442 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3443 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3444 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3445 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3446 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3447 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3448 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3449 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3450 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3451 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3452 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3453 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3454 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3456 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3457 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3458 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3459 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3460 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3461 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3462 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3464 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3465 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3466 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3467 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3468 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3469 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3470 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3471 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3472 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3473 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3475 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3476 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3477 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3478 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3479 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3481 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3482 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3483 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3484 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3485 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3486 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3487 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3489 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3490 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3491 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3492 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3493 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3494 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3497 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3498 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3499 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3502 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3503 if any retry times were supplied.
3505 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3506 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3507 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3509 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3511 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3513 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3514 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3515 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3516 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3517 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3518 before) are ignored.
3520 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3521 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3523 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3524 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3525 committing the later change.]
3527 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3528 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3529 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3530 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3531 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3532 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3533 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3534 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3535 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3537 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3538 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3539 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3540 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3541 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3542 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3543 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3544 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3545 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3547 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3548 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3549 hammering the server.
3551 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3552 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3554 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3556 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3557 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3558 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3560 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3561 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3562 one case where this was not true.
3564 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3565 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3566 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3567 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3570 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3571 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3572 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3573 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3574 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3575 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3576 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3577 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3578 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3581 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3582 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3583 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3584 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3586 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3587 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3589 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3590 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3591 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3593 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3595 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3597 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3599 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3600 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3601 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3602 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3604 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3605 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3607 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3608 be meaningful with "accept".
3610 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3611 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3613 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3614 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3615 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3617 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3618 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3619 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3620 there is data to show.
3621 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3623 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3624 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3625 as well as the number of messages.
3627 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3628 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3629 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3631 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3632 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3633 have a flag are now skipped.
3635 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3636 Added the -emptyok flag.
3638 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3639 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3641 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3642 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3643 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3645 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3648 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3649 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3651 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3653 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3654 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3656 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3658 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3659 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3660 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3661 contravention of the specifications.
3663 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3664 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3665 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3667 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3668 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3669 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3671 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3673 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3674 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3675 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3676 some point in the past.
3678 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3679 transport during callout processing was broken.
3681 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3682 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3684 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3685 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3687 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3688 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3690 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3696 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3697 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3699 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3700 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3701 there is data to show.
3702 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3704 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3705 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3707 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3708 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3710 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3711 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3713 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3714 submissions from trusted users.
3716 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3717 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3719 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3720 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3721 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3722 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3723 there is now a framework to start from.
3725 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3726 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3727 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3729 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3731 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3733 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3735 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3736 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3737 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3739 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3742 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3743 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3744 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3746 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3747 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3748 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3751 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3752 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3753 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3754 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3755 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3757 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3758 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3760 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3762 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3763 operations in malware.c.
3765 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3768 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3769 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3770 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3773 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3774 statements to "add_header".
3776 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3777 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3779 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3780 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3783 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3787 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3788 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3789 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3792 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3793 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3795 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3796 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3798 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3799 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3800 any possible encoding problems.
3802 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3803 but not after initializing Perl.
3805 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3806 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3807 apparently, which is not desirable.
3809 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3812 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3815 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3817 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3818 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3819 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3820 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3822 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3823 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3824 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3826 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3827 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3828 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3831 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3832 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3833 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3834 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3835 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3841 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3842 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3844 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3847 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3848 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3849 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3850 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3851 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3852 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3853 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3854 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3857 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3859 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3860 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3861 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3863 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3864 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3865 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3868 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3869 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3871 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3872 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3873 option (which defaults to 0600).
3875 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3877 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3878 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3879 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3880 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3881 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3882 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3883 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3885 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3891 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3892 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3893 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3894 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3895 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3896 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3899 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3900 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3902 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3904 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3905 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3906 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3907 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3908 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3911 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3912 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3914 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3915 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3916 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3917 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3918 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3920 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3921 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3922 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3923 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3925 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3926 be the same on different OS.
3928 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3931 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3932 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3934 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3937 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3938 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3939 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3940 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3941 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3942 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3945 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3946 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3947 when Exim was called.
3949 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3950 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3952 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3953 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3954 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3955 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3957 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3958 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3959 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3960 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3963 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3964 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3965 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3967 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3968 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3969 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3971 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3974 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3975 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3976 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3977 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3978 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3979 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3980 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3981 values from the SRV records were lost.
3983 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3984 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3985 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3987 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3988 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3989 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3991 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3992 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3993 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3994 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3995 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3996 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3997 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3998 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3999 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4000 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4002 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4003 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4004 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4006 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4007 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4009 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4010 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4011 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4012 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4015 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4016 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4017 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4019 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4020 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4021 PH/23 above applies.
4023 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4024 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4025 (for which there is an explicit test).
4027 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4029 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4030 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4031 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4032 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4033 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4035 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4036 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4037 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4038 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4040 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4041 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4042 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4044 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4046 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4048 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4049 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4050 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4052 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4053 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4054 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4055 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4056 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4058 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4059 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4060 the message gets confusing).
4062 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4063 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4064 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4065 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4067 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4068 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4069 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4070 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4073 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4074 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4075 the different processes.
4077 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4079 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4081 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4082 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4084 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4085 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4087 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4088 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4089 messages matching specified criteria.
4091 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4093 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4094 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4096 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4097 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4098 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4099 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4100 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4101 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4102 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4103 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4104 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4105 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4107 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4108 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4109 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4111 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4113 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4114 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4115 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4116 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4117 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4118 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4119 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4122 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4123 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4125 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4127 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4129 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4131 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4132 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4133 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4134 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4135 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4136 size of the count of files.
4138 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4140 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4143 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4144 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4145 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4146 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4148 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4149 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4150 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4152 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4153 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4154 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4155 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4156 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4158 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4159 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4161 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4162 will now be deprecated.
4164 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4166 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4167 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4168 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4170 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4171 with very large, slow to parse queues
4173 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4175 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4177 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4178 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4179 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4182 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4183 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4184 Sieve code now uses this.
4186 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4187 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4189 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4190 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4192 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4194 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4195 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4196 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4197 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4198 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4200 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4201 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4202 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4203 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4205 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4207 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4209 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4210 is preferred over IPv4.
4212 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4213 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4214 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4215 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4216 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4217 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4218 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4220 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4221 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4222 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4224 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4226 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4227 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4228 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4229 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4230 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4231 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4232 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4233 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4234 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4235 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4236 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4238 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4239 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4240 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4246 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4248 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4249 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4251 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4252 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4253 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4255 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4257 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4260 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4263 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4264 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4265 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4268 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4269 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4271 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4272 inside the third argument.
4274 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4275 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4278 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4279 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4281 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4282 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4284 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4286 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4287 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4290 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4292 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4293 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4294 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4295 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4296 identical. For example:
4298 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4300 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4301 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4302 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4304 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4305 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4306 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4307 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4309 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4310 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4311 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4314 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4316 o fixes some comments
4317 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4318 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4319 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4320 and documents the missing references header update
4324 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4325 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4328 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4329 Electronic Mail") by including:
4331 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4333 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4334 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4335 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4336 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4337 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4339 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4341 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4343 The auto-replied keyword:
4345 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4346 message by an automatic process,
4348 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4350 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4351 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4353 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4354 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4357 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4358 to the default Received: header definition.
4360 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4362 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4363 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4364 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4366 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4367 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4368 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4370 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4371 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4372 and treats the condition as false.
4374 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4376 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4377 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4378 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4379 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4380 not changing the active code.
4382 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4383 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4385 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4386 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4388 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4391 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4392 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4393 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4394 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4395 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4396 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4397 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4398 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4399 the text comparison.
4401 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4402 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4403 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4404 The same fix has been applied.
4410 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4411 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4414 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4415 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4417 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4419 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4420 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4421 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4422 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4423 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4425 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4426 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4427 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4428 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4431 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4439 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4440 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4442 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4444 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4446 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4447 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4448 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4450 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4451 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4452 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4454 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4455 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4458 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4459 ${stat: expansion item.
4461 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4462 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4464 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4465 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4468 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4470 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4473 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4474 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4476 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4478 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4479 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4480 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4481 the end of the subprocess.
4483 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4484 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4485 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4486 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4487 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4489 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4491 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4493 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4494 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4496 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4498 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4500 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4501 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4504 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4506 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4507 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4508 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4510 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4511 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4513 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4514 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4516 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4517 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4519 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4520 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4522 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4523 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4524 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4525 contributed by a Radius user.
4527 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4528 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4530 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4531 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4533 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4536 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4537 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4540 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4541 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4542 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4543 header lines when this was not necessary.
4545 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4547 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4548 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4549 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4552 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4555 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4556 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4557 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4558 return code was incorrect.
4560 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4562 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4564 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4566 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4568 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4569 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4570 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4571 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4572 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4575 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4577 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4578 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4579 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4580 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4581 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4582 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4583 which is clearly wrong.
4585 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4587 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4588 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4589 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4592 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4593 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4595 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4597 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4598 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4600 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4601 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4603 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4604 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4606 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4607 recipients, not senders.
4609 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4610 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4612 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4614 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4616 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4617 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4618 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4619 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4621 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4623 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4624 clock is set back in time.
4626 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4627 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4629 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4630 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4632 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4633 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4636 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4637 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4640 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4643 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4645 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4646 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4647 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4649 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4650 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4651 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4652 helo verification defer as a failure.
4654 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4655 actual error message.
4661 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4663 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4664 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4665 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4666 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4668 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4670 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4671 can still be requested.
4673 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4674 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4675 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4676 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4678 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4679 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4680 circumstances, but probably never did.
4682 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4683 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4684 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4687 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4689 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4690 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4692 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4694 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4696 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4697 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4698 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4699 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4700 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4701 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4703 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4704 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4705 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4706 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4707 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4708 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4710 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4711 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4713 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4714 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4716 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4717 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4719 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4721 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4723 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4725 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4727 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4729 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4731 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4733 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4734 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4735 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4737 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4738 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4739 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4740 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4742 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4743 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4744 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4746 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4747 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4748 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4749 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4751 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4752 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4755 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4756 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4757 should work with maildirs and everything.
4759 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4760 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4762 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4765 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4766 function for BDB 4.3.
4768 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4770 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4771 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4774 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4775 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4776 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4777 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4778 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4779 formatting function string_vformat().
4781 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4782 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4783 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4784 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4785 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4786 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4787 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4788 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4790 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4791 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4794 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4795 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4797 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4798 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4799 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4800 test. It is now used for both.
4802 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4803 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4804 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4805 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4806 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4807 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4809 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4810 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4811 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4814 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4815 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4816 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4818 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4819 experimental DomainKeys support:
4821 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4822 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4823 the control was given.
4825 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4827 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4829 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4831 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4832 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4833 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4836 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4837 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4838 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4839 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4840 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4841 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4844 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4845 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4846 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4847 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4848 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4849 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4851 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4852 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4853 do -d+all out of habit.
4855 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4856 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4859 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4860 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4861 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4862 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4863 record types that Exim uses.
4865 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4866 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4867 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4868 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4869 non-existent file that was broken.
4871 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4872 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4874 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4875 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4876 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4878 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4880 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4881 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4882 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4883 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4884 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4887 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4888 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4889 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4890 at a slight CPU cost.
4892 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4893 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4895 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4898 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4900 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4901 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4907 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4908 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4910 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4912 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4914 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4915 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4917 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4918 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4919 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4920 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4921 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4922 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4925 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4926 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4927 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4928 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4931 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4932 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4933 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4934 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4935 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4936 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4937 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4940 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4941 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4943 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4944 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4945 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4946 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4947 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4948 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4950 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4951 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4952 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4953 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4955 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4958 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4959 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4961 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4962 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4963 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4964 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4967 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4969 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4970 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4972 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4973 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4974 to what was transported.)
4976 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4978 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4979 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4980 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4981 spamd_address settings.
4983 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4984 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4985 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4986 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4987 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4989 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4991 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4992 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4993 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4994 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4995 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4997 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4998 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5000 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5001 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5002 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5003 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5004 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5005 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5006 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5009 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5010 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5011 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5012 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5013 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5014 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5015 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5018 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5020 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5021 driver and ACL definitions.
5023 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5024 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5026 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5027 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5028 understands it better than I do:
5030 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5031 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5033 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5034 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5035 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5036 => three warnings about OTP not working
5037 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5039 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5040 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5041 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5042 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5044 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5045 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5047 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5048 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5049 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5051 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5052 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5055 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5056 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5059 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5060 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5061 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5063 warn !verify = sender
5064 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5066 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5067 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5069 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5071 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5072 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5074 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5075 nomenclature these days.)
5077 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5078 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5080 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5081 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5082 . First host does not offer TLS;
5083 . First host accepts first address;
5084 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5085 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5086 . Second host accepts second address.
5087 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5088 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5091 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5092 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5093 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5094 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5095 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5097 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5098 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5100 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5101 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5103 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5104 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5105 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5107 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5108 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5111 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5113 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5114 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5115 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5116 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5117 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5118 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5119 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5121 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5122 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5123 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5124 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5125 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5127 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5128 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5131 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5132 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5133 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5134 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5135 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5136 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5138 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5140 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5141 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5142 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5143 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5144 printable escape sequences.
5146 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5147 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5150 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5151 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5154 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5155 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5156 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5157 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5158 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5160 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5161 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5162 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5164 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5166 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5167 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5170 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5171 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5172 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5173 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5174 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5175 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5176 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5177 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5178 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5181 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5182 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5183 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5184 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5188 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5189 ----------------------------------------
5191 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5192 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5193 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5194 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5195 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5196 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5199 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5200 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5201 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5202 historical information.
5208 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5210 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5211 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5213 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5214 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5217 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5218 filter fails to execute.
5220 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5221 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5222 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5223 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5224 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5226 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5228 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5229 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5230 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5231 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5233 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5234 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5235 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5236 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5237 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5239 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5241 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5243 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5244 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5245 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5246 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5248 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5249 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5250 sender verification.
5252 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5253 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5255 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5257 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5260 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5261 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5263 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5264 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5266 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5267 information about exactly what failed.
5269 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5271 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5272 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5273 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5275 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5276 It is now set to "smtps".
5278 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5279 ignore_target_hosts.
5281 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5282 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5283 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5284 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5287 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5288 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5289 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5291 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5292 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5293 wake it up if nothing else does.
5295 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5296 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5297 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5300 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5301 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5303 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5305 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5306 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5307 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5308 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5309 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5310 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5311 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5312 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5314 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5315 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5316 than one IP address.
5318 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5319 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5320 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5321 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5323 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5324 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5325 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5326 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5327 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5330 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5331 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5332 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5333 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5335 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5336 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5339 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5340 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5341 $sender_host_address.
5343 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5344 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5345 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5346 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5347 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5350 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5352 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5353 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5355 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5356 just the host names, not the priorities.
5358 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5359 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5360 controlled by a keyword.
5362 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5363 multiple records are returned.
5365 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5366 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5369 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5371 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5372 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5374 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5375 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5376 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5378 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5380 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5382 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5384 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5385 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5386 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5387 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5388 because the tests only now provoked it.
5390 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5391 (this can affect the format of dates).
5393 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5394 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5395 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5396 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5398 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5400 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5401 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5402 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5403 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5405 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5406 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5407 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5409 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5412 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5413 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5414 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5415 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5416 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5417 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5420 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5421 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5422 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5425 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5426 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5427 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5429 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5430 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5431 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5432 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5433 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5434 so I produce this patch..."
5436 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5437 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5440 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5441 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5442 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5443 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5446 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5448 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5449 long debug lines gets shown.
5451 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5452 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5454 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5456 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5457 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5458 of $primary_hostname.
5460 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5461 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5462 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5463 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5464 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5465 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5466 by change 4.50/55 above.
5468 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5469 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5470 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5471 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5472 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5473 running as the user.
5476 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5477 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5478 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5481 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5482 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5484 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5485 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5486 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5487 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5488 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5490 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5491 This has been fixed.
5493 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5494 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5495 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5496 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5499 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5501 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5502 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5503 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5504 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5506 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5507 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5509 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5510 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5511 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5513 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5514 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5515 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5518 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5519 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5520 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5522 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5523 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5524 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5525 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5527 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5528 during host lookups.
5530 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5531 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5533 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5535 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5536 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5537 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5538 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5539 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5542 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5543 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5545 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5546 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5547 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5549 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5551 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5552 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5553 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5554 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5555 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5556 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5559 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5560 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5561 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5562 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5563 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5565 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5568 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5570 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5571 "vacation" handling.
5573 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5574 OS variants using glibc.
5576 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5579 ----------------------------------------------------
5580 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5581 ----------------------------------------------------
5587 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5588 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5591 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5592 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5595 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5596 filter fails to execute.
5598 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5599 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5600 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5601 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5602 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5604 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5605 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5606 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5607 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5609 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5610 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5611 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5612 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5613 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5615 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5617 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5618 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5619 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5620 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5622 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5623 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5624 sender verification.
5626 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5627 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5629 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5630 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5632 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5633 ignore_target_hosts.
5635 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5636 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5637 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5638 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5641 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5642 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5643 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5645 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5646 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5647 wake it up if nothing else does.
5649 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5650 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5651 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5654 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5655 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5657 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5659 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5660 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5663 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5664 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5667 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5668 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5669 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5670 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5671 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5674 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5675 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5678 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5679 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5680 $sender_host_address.
5682 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5684 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5685 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5686 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5688 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5691 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5692 (this can affect the format of dates).
5694 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5695 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5696 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5697 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5699 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5700 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5701 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5703 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5704 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5705 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5706 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5708 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5709 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5710 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5712 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5715 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5716 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5717 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5718 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5719 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5720 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5723 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5724 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5725 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5726 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5729 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5730 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5731 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5732 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5733 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5734 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5735 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5737 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5738 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5739 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5740 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5741 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5742 running as the user.
5745 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5746 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5747 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5750 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5751 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5752 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5753 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5754 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5756 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5757 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5758 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5759 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5762 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5763 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5764 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5765 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5766 because the tests only now provoked it.
5772 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5773 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5774 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5775 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5776 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5777 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5778 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5780 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5781 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5784 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5786 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5788 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5789 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5792 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5793 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5794 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5795 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5796 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5798 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5799 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5801 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5803 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5805 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5808 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5809 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5811 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5812 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5813 affecting debugging statements).
5815 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5817 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5818 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5819 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5820 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5821 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5822 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5823 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5824 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5825 after the received time, and all would be well.
5827 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5828 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5829 condition in an expansion string.
5831 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5833 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5834 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5835 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5836 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5837 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5838 job under whatever limits there are.
5840 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5842 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5845 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5846 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5847 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5848 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5851 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5852 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5853 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5854 binary data in such strings.
5856 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5858 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5859 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5860 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5861 failure, which is pointless.
5863 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5865 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5867 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5868 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5869 Sender: header lines.
5871 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5872 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5873 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5875 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5876 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5877 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5878 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5879 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5882 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5883 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5884 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5885 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5886 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5888 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5889 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5890 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5893 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5894 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5896 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5897 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5899 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5901 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5903 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5905 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5908 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5910 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5912 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5913 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5914 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5915 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5917 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5918 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5924 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5925 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5926 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5928 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5929 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5930 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5931 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5932 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5933 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5935 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5936 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5937 verification failure".
5939 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5940 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5941 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5942 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5944 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5945 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5946 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5947 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5948 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5949 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5950 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5951 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5952 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5953 treated as a timeout.
5955 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5956 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5957 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5958 not set for Exim filters).
5960 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5961 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5962 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5964 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5966 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5967 try to make them clearer.
5969 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5970 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5972 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5974 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5976 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5977 only the Cygwin environment.
5979 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5980 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5981 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5982 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5983 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5985 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5986 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5987 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5988 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5989 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5990 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5991 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5993 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5994 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5996 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5998 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5999 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6000 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6002 To: susanne@some.where
6004 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6005 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6006 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6007 of addresses in From: header lines).
6009 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6010 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6011 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6013 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6014 treated as non-personal.
6016 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6017 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6019 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6021 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6023 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6024 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6025 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6027 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6028 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6030 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6031 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6032 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6033 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6034 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6035 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6037 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6038 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6039 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6040 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6041 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6042 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6043 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6044 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6046 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6048 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6049 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6051 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6052 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6053 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6055 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6056 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6058 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6059 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6060 rather than long int.
6062 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6064 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6070 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6071 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6072 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6073 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6074 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6075 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6081 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6082 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6084 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6085 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6086 socklen_t is defined.
6088 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6091 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6094 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6095 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6096 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6097 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6098 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6100 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6101 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6102 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6103 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6105 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6106 of flapping under certain conditions.
6108 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6109 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6110 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6112 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6114 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6116 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6117 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6118 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6119 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6121 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6122 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6123 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6124 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6125 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6126 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6127 preserved with the message after it was received.
6129 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6130 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6131 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6132 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6133 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6134 test suite worked just fine.
6136 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6137 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6138 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6140 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6141 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6144 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6145 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6146 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6147 does not fully solve it.
6149 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6150 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6151 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6152 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6153 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6155 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6156 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6157 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6159 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6160 string, for example:
6162 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6164 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6165 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6166 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6167 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6168 the routers could not see them.
6170 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6171 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6173 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6174 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6177 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6178 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6179 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6180 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6181 that needed quoting.
6183 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6184 was not being matched caselessly.
6186 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6189 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6190 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6191 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6192 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6193 when use_sender is false.
6195 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6197 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6199 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6201 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6202 the configuration file.
6204 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6205 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6207 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6209 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6210 bytes in the message body.
6212 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6213 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6216 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6218 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6220 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6221 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6222 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6223 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6230 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6231 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6233 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6234 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6235 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6236 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6237 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6239 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6240 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6242 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6243 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6244 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6246 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6247 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6248 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6250 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6253 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6254 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6255 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6256 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6257 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6258 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6259 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6265 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6266 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6267 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6268 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6269 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6270 default (and expected) setting.
6272 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6273 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6274 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6275 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6277 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6278 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6280 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6283 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6284 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6285 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6286 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6287 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6288 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6290 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6291 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6292 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6294 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6295 part (NOT match_host).
6297 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6299 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6300 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6301 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6302 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6303 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6304 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6305 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6306 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6307 the same named file.
6309 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6310 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6313 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6314 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6315 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6316 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6319 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6320 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6321 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6323 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6325 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6327 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6329 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6330 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6332 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6333 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6334 before starting the TLS session.
6336 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6338 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6339 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6341 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6342 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6343 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6344 colon in the middle).
6350 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6351 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6352 multiple configurations are in use.
6354 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6355 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6356 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6357 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6358 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6359 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6361 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6362 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6364 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6365 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6366 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6368 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6369 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6372 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6373 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6375 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6377 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6378 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6380 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6388 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6389 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6390 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6391 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6392 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6394 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6397 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6398 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6399 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6400 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6401 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6402 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6404 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6405 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6406 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6407 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6408 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6409 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6410 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6413 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6414 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6415 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6416 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6417 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6419 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6421 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6422 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6423 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6425 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6427 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6428 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6429 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6432 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6433 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6435 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6436 Three changes have been made:
6438 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6439 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6440 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6441 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6442 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6444 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6447 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6448 the modified behaviour.
6454 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6457 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6458 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6460 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6461 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6462 try to track down a specific problem.
6464 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6465 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6466 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6468 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6471 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6472 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6473 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6474 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6475 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6476 some earlier ones do not.
6478 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6480 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6481 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6482 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6483 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6484 address literals are enabled, of course).
6486 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6488 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6489 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6490 by a command such as
6494 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6496 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6498 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6499 remained set. It is now erased.
6501 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6502 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6504 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6505 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6506 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6507 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6508 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6509 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6510 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6511 appropriate error code.
6513 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6514 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6515 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6516 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6517 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6518 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6520 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6521 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6522 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6524 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6525 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6526 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6527 terminate the header.
6529 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6530 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6531 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6533 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6534 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6535 (4.30/29). In particular:
6537 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6540 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6541 to write a maildirsize file.
6543 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6544 the transport, the new value overrides.
6546 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6549 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6550 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6551 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6554 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6555 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6556 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6559 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6560 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6561 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6563 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6564 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6567 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6568 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6569 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6571 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6573 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6575 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6577 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6578 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6581 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6582 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6583 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6584 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6585 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6586 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6587 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6590 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6591 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6592 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6593 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6594 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6597 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6598 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6599 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6600 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6601 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6602 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6603 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6604 cached value only when the same options are set.
6606 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6608 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6609 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6610 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6611 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6612 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6614 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6615 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6616 it is clearly obsolete.
6618 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6621 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6622 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6623 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6626 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6627 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6628 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6629 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6630 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6632 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6633 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6634 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6635 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6637 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6639 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6641 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6642 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6645 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6646 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6647 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6648 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6649 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6650 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6653 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6654 with the -f command-line option.
6656 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6657 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6658 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6659 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6660 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6661 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6663 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6664 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6667 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6668 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6669 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6670 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6671 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6672 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6673 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6674 buffer is too small.
6676 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6677 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6679 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6680 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6681 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6682 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6683 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6684 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6685 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6686 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6687 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6689 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6690 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6691 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6693 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6694 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6697 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6698 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6699 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6700 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6701 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6703 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6704 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6705 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6706 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6709 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6711 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6713 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6714 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6716 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6717 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6718 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6720 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6721 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6722 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6723 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6724 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6726 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6727 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6728 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6729 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6730 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6731 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6732 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6734 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6735 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6736 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6737 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6738 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6739 the test of how many are available.
6741 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6742 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6743 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6744 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6745 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6746 new message is started.
6748 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6749 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6751 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6752 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6754 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6755 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6756 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6759 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6760 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6761 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6762 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6763 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6764 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6765 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6767 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6768 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6769 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6770 interpreted as octal.
6772 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6775 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6776 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6777 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6778 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6779 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6780 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6782 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6783 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6784 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6785 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6787 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6788 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6789 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6790 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6792 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6793 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6796 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6797 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6799 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6801 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6802 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6803 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6804 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6806 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6807 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6808 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6809 supplied", which is not helpful.
6811 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6812 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6813 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6815 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6816 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6817 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6818 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6819 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6820 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6821 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6822 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6824 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6825 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6826 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6827 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6828 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6830 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6831 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6832 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6833 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6834 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6835 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6837 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6838 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6839 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6841 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6843 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6844 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6845 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6848 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6850 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6851 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6852 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6853 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6854 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6855 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6856 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6857 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6859 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6860 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6861 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6862 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6863 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6865 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6868 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6869 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6870 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6871 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6872 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6873 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6874 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6875 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6876 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6882 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6883 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6884 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6886 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6889 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6890 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6891 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6893 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6894 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6895 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6896 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6897 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6898 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6900 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6901 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6902 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6903 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6904 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6905 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6906 the Exim test suite.
6908 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6909 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6910 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6911 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6913 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6914 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6915 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6916 specify it in this variable.
6918 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6919 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6920 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6921 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6923 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6924 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6925 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6926 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6928 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6929 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6930 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6931 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6932 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6934 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6936 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6939 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6940 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6941 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6942 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6943 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6945 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6946 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6948 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6949 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6950 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6951 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6952 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6954 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6955 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6957 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6958 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6959 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6961 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6962 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6964 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6965 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6967 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6968 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6969 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6971 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6972 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6974 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6975 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6976 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6977 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6979 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6981 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6982 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6983 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6984 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6986 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6988 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6989 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6991 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6993 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6994 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6995 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6996 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6997 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6998 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7000 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7002 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7003 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7006 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7008 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7009 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7011 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7012 550 Sender verify failed
7014 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7015 the final line of the response.
7017 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7018 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7019 all other user lookups.
7021 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7024 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7025 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7026 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7027 result into an int without checking.
7029 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7030 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7031 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7033 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7034 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7035 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7036 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7038 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7041 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7042 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7044 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7045 to the empty sender.
7047 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7048 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7049 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7050 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7051 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7052 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7053 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7056 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7057 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7058 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7059 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7062 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7063 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7065 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7068 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7069 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7071 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7073 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7074 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7077 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7078 as soon as it is encountered.
7080 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7082 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7085 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7086 recognizes a tab character.
7088 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7089 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7090 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7091 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7093 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7095 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7098 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7100 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7102 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7103 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7106 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7107 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7108 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7109 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7110 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7112 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7113 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7115 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7116 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7117 list (.included file names were always shown).
7119 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7120 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7121 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7124 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7125 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7127 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7129 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7131 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7133 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7134 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7135 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7136 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7137 failures to open the logs.
7139 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7140 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7141 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7142 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7143 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7144 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7145 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7151 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7152 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7153 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7156 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7157 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7158 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7160 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7161 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7162 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7164 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7165 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7166 causing some misleading effects.
7168 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7169 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7170 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7172 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7173 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7174 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7175 queue-runner function directly.
7181 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7184 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7185 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7186 was always written to the default place.
7188 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7189 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7190 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7192 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7194 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7196 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7197 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7198 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7200 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7201 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7204 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7205 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7206 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7208 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7209 command line option is disabled.
7211 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7212 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7214 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7216 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7218 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7219 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7221 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7223 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7224 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7225 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7226 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7227 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7228 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7230 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7231 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7234 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7235 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7237 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7238 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7240 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7241 received was valid base64.
7243 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7244 name of the variable that was being set.
7246 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7248 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7249 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7250 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7251 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7252 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7253 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7255 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7257 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7258 nor realm was specified.
7260 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7261 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7262 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7263 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7265 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7266 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7267 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7269 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7270 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7271 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7273 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7274 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7275 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7276 some systems use these upper case variants.
7278 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7279 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7280 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7281 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7283 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7285 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7286 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7288 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7289 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7292 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7294 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7295 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7296 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7297 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7299 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7302 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7303 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7304 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7306 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7307 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7309 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7310 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7311 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7312 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7314 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7315 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7316 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7318 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7320 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7321 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7322 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7323 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7326 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7327 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7328 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7330 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7332 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7333 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7335 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7336 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7338 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7339 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7340 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7341 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7342 when emails are that large.
7349 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7350 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7352 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7353 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7354 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7356 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7357 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7358 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7360 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7361 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7362 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7363 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7364 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7366 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7367 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7368 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7369 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7370 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7373 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7374 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7375 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7376 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7377 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7378 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7379 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7380 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7381 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7382 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7383 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7384 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7385 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7386 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7388 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7389 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7392 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7393 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7394 error should be diagnosed.
7396 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7397 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7398 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7399 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7400 appeared instead of "NULL".
7402 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7403 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7404 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7405 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7406 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7407 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7410 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7411 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7412 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7418 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7419 or receiver verification errors.
7421 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7424 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7425 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7426 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7427 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7429 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7430 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7431 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7432 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7433 shouldn't happen again.
7435 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7436 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7437 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7439 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7440 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7442 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7444 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7445 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7447 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7448 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7451 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7452 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7453 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7455 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7456 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7457 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7458 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7460 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7461 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7462 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7463 to define what should happen).
7465 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7466 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7467 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7469 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7471 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7473 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7474 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7476 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7477 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7478 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7479 structure in all cases.
7481 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7482 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7483 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7484 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7486 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7487 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7490 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7491 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7493 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7494 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7496 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7497 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7498 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7500 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7501 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7502 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7504 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7505 the book and for uniformity.
7507 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7509 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7510 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7511 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7512 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7513 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7514 non-existent command as the problem.
7516 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7517 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7518 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7520 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7522 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7523 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7524 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7526 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7527 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7528 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7529 timestamps using strftime().
7531 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7532 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7534 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7535 transport-time rewrites.
7537 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7538 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7539 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7540 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7542 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7543 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7545 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7546 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7547 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7548 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7551 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7552 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7553 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7554 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7555 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7556 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7557 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7559 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7560 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7561 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7562 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7563 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7565 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7566 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7567 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7568 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7569 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7570 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7571 remaining text gets split now.
7573 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7574 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7575 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7576 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7578 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7579 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7580 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7581 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7584 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7585 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7586 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7587 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7588 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7589 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7590 passed through if needed.
7592 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7593 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7594 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7595 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7596 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7597 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7599 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7600 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7601 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7602 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7603 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7605 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7606 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7607 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7608 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7609 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7611 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7612 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7615 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7616 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7617 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7618 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7619 mayhem of various kinds.
7621 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7622 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7623 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7624 the right test for positive values.
7626 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7627 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7628 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7629 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7630 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7631 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7632 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7633 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7634 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7635 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7638 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7641 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7642 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7645 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7646 the existing equality matching.
7648 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7649 dealing with inode numbers.
7651 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7652 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7653 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7655 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7656 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7657 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7658 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7661 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7662 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7663 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7664 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7665 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7666 relay addresses has also been removed.
7668 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7670 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7671 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7672 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7674 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7675 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7676 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7677 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7678 processing applies to CR:
7680 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7681 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7683 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7684 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7685 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7686 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7688 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7689 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7690 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7692 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7693 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7694 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7695 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7696 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7697 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7700 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7703 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7704 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7705 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7706 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7709 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7711 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7713 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7715 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7716 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7717 not considered personal.
7719 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7721 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7723 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7725 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7726 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7727 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7728 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7729 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7730 header lines, and spool format errors.
7732 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7733 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7734 for more flexibility.
7736 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7737 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7738 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7740 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7743 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7744 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7745 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7746 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7747 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7748 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7749 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7750 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7751 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7753 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7754 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7755 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7756 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7757 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7758 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7759 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7761 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7762 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7763 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7765 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7766 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7767 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7768 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7769 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7770 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7771 instead of killing the process with assert().
7773 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7774 than Unicode encoding.
7776 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7777 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7778 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7779 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7781 77. Added process_log_path.
7783 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7784 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7786 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7787 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7789 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7790 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7791 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7793 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7794 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7795 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7796 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7797 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7800 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7801 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7804 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7805 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7806 they will be used during message reception.
7812 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.