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
15 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
16 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
17 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
19 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
21 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
22 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
25 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
26 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
27 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
29 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
31 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
33 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
34 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
35 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
37 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
38 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
39 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
41 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
42 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
44 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
45 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
48 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
49 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
50 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
51 should both provide the file and set the option.
52 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
54 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
55 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
57 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
58 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
59 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
60 Authentication-Results: header.
62 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
63 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
64 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
65 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
67 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
68 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
69 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
70 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
71 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
72 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
73 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
75 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
76 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
77 copies while it is still usable.
79 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
80 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
81 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
83 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
84 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
86 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
87 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
88 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
89 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
91 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
92 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
93 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
96 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
97 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
98 - the pipe transport command
99 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
100 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
102 - paths used by single-key lookups
103 Previously this was permitted.
105 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
106 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
107 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
108 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
110 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
111 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
112 support larger malloc requests.
114 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
115 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
116 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
117 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
119 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
120 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
121 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
122 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
125 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
126 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
127 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
128 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
129 data being length-specified.
131 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
132 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
133 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
134 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
136 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
137 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
138 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
139 not being properly tracked.
141 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
142 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
143 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
144 minute could be seen.
146 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
147 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
148 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
150 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
151 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
153 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
154 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
157 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
159 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
160 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
162 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
163 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
164 filesystem as sufficient validation.
166 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
167 argument is supplied.
169 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
170 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
171 access under Exim's current working directory.
173 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
174 Previously no event was raised.
176 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
177 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
178 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
181 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
182 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
183 the size of the signature hash.
185 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
186 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
188 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
189 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
190 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
191 dropped between messages.
193 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
194 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
195 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
196 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
198 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
199 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
200 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
201 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
202 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
203 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
204 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
205 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
206 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
212 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
213 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
215 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
216 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
219 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
222 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
224 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
226 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
227 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
229 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
230 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
231 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
232 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
233 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
234 suitably configured).
236 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
237 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
239 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
240 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
243 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
244 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
246 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
247 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
248 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
249 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
252 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
253 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
254 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
256 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
259 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
260 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
262 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
263 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
264 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
265 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
268 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
269 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
270 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
271 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
274 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
275 shared (NFS) environment.
277 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
278 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
281 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
282 on some platforms for bit 31.
284 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
285 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
286 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
287 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
288 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
289 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
290 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
291 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
293 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
295 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
296 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
298 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
299 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
302 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
303 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
306 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
307 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
308 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
311 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
312 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
313 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
315 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
316 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
317 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
318 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
319 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
321 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
324 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
325 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
326 be requested on all coneections.
328 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
329 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
331 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
333 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
334 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
335 one for these; the option was ignored.
337 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
338 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
339 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
340 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
342 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
343 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
344 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
347 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
348 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
349 error ignored was made.
351 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
353 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
354 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
355 values, to catch one form of exploit.
357 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
358 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
359 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
361 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
362 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
365 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
366 them in our smtp response.
368 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
369 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
370 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
371 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
372 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
374 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
375 link count into consideration.
377 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
378 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
380 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
381 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
382 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
385 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
387 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
389 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
391 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
392 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
393 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
394 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
396 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
398 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
399 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
402 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
403 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
404 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
406 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
407 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
408 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
410 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
411 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
412 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
413 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
414 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
415 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
416 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
417 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
419 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
420 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
421 resulted in an indefinite loop.
423 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
424 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
425 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
431 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
432 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
434 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
435 non-signal-safe functions being used.
437 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
438 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
439 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
441 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
442 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
443 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
445 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
446 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
447 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
448 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
449 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
452 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
453 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
455 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
456 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
457 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
458 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
459 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
460 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
461 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
463 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
464 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
466 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
469 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
470 Previously this would segfault.
472 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
475 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
476 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
477 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
478 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
479 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
480 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
482 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
484 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
485 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
486 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
487 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
489 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
491 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
492 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
493 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
494 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
496 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
498 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
500 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
501 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
502 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
504 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
505 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
506 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
508 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
510 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
511 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
512 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
513 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
515 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
516 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
517 promised '?' replacement.
519 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
521 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
522 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
523 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
524 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
525 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
527 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
528 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
529 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
531 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
532 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
533 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
535 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
536 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
537 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
539 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
540 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
541 hope that is portable enough.
543 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
544 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
545 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
546 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
548 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
549 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
550 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
552 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
553 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
554 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
555 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
557 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
558 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
560 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
561 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
562 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
563 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
565 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
566 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
567 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
569 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
570 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
571 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
572 the previous G, M, k.
574 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
575 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
578 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
579 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
580 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
581 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
583 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
584 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
586 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
587 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
588 off past the nul-terimation.
590 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
591 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
592 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
593 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
594 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
596 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
598 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
599 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
600 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
603 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
604 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
606 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
607 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
608 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
610 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
611 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
612 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
614 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
615 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
621 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
622 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
623 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
624 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
625 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
626 be defined in redis_servers.
628 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
629 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
631 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
632 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
633 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
634 extant use locations.
636 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
637 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
639 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
640 Previously only the last row was returned.
642 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
643 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
644 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
645 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
648 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
649 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
650 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
651 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
652 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
653 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
654 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
655 Main pool for expansions.
656 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
657 active in the testsuite.
658 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
660 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
661 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
662 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
663 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
666 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
667 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
670 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
671 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
672 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
674 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
675 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
676 ClamAV interface method is removed.
678 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
679 rows affected is given instead).
681 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
682 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
684 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
685 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
686 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
687 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
688 for all multi-message initiating connections.
690 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
691 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
692 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
694 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
695 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
696 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
697 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
700 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
701 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
702 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
705 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
707 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
708 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
710 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
711 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
712 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
714 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
715 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
716 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
719 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
720 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
722 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
723 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
724 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
726 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
727 for the build is renamed.
729 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
730 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
731 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
733 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
734 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
735 result replacing the original.
737 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
738 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
739 and the resources needed to be freed.
741 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
743 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
746 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
747 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
748 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
749 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
751 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
752 length value. Previously this would segfault.
754 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
755 newer versions of the scanner.
757 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
758 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
759 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
760 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
761 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
762 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
763 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
765 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
766 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
767 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
768 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
769 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
770 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
771 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
772 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
773 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
774 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
776 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
777 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
779 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
781 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
782 allows proper process termination in container environments.
784 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
785 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
787 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
788 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
789 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
791 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
792 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
793 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
794 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
796 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
797 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
800 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
801 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
803 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
804 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
805 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
806 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
807 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
809 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
810 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
813 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
814 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
816 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
819 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
820 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
821 "bare" representation.
823 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
824 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
825 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
826 corrupted the output.
832 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
833 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
834 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
835 pairs of long lines into single ones.
837 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
838 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
840 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
841 This permits better logging.
843 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
844 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
845 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
846 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
847 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
848 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
850 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
851 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
854 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
855 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
856 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
858 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
859 than 255 are no longer allowed.
861 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
862 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
863 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
864 client, there is no benefit for these.
865 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
866 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
867 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
870 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
871 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
873 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
874 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
875 erroneously found still-pending ones.
877 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
878 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
880 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
881 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
882 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
883 signature and again for transmission.
885 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
886 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
887 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
889 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
890 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
891 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
892 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
893 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
894 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
895 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
897 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
898 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
899 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
900 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
902 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
903 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
904 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
905 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
906 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
907 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
910 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
911 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
912 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
913 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
916 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
917 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
918 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
919 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
922 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
923 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
926 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
927 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
928 banner-time rejection.
930 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
933 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
934 is the name of a transport.
937 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
939 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
940 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
942 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
943 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
944 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
947 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
948 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
949 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
950 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
952 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
953 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
954 initial verify call returned a defer.
956 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
957 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
959 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
960 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
962 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
963 if present. Previously it was ignored.
965 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
966 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
968 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
969 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
972 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
973 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
975 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
976 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
977 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
979 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
980 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
981 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
982 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
984 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
985 and confused the parent.
987 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
988 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
990 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
993 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
994 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
995 out-of-order delivery.
997 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
998 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
999 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1002 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1003 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1006 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1007 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1008 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1010 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1011 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1012 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1013 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1014 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1015 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1017 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1018 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1019 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1021 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1022 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1023 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1025 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1026 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1027 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1028 though a different problem.
1034 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1035 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1037 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1039 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1040 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1042 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1043 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1045 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1046 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1047 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1048 before acknowledging the chunk.
1050 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1051 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1052 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1054 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1055 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1056 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1059 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1060 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1061 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1063 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1064 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1066 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1067 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1068 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1069 body hash calculated value.
1071 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1072 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1073 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1075 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1077 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1078 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1080 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1081 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1082 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1084 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1085 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1086 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1087 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1088 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1089 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1091 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1092 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1093 past that check, despite the cost.
1095 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1096 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1097 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1099 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1100 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1101 TLS library to consume.
1103 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1105 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1107 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1108 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1109 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1110 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1111 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1112 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1113 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1115 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1117 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1119 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1120 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1121 should be warning-free.
1123 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1125 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1126 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1128 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1129 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1130 general solution here.
1132 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1133 already-broken messages in the queue.
1135 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1137 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1143 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1144 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1146 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1147 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1148 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1150 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1151 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1152 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1153 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1154 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1155 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1156 if one fails this test.
1157 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1158 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1160 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1161 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1163 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1164 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1166 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1167 in rewrites and routers.
1169 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1170 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1172 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1173 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1175 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1177 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1180 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1181 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1182 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1183 connection after a verify cache hit.
1184 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1186 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1187 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1189 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1190 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1191 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1192 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1193 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1195 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1196 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1198 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1199 Previously they were not counted.
1201 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1202 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1203 that needed the lookup.
1205 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1206 distinguished as "(=".
1208 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1209 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1211 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1213 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1214 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1216 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1217 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1219 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1220 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1223 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1224 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1225 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1226 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1228 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1230 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1231 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1232 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1234 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1235 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1236 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1239 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1240 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1241 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1244 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1245 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1246 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1248 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1249 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1252 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1254 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1255 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1257 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1258 are not in the system include path.
1260 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1261 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1262 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1263 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1265 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1266 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1267 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1269 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1271 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1272 an incoming connection.
1274 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1277 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1278 fallback to "prime256v1".
1280 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1281 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1287 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1288 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1289 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1290 client dropping the TLS connection.
1292 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1293 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1295 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1296 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1297 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1298 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1301 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1302 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1303 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1304 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1305 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1306 check on the next write.
1308 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1309 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1310 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1311 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1312 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1314 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1315 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1317 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1318 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1319 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1321 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1322 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1323 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1324 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1326 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1327 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1329 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1330 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1332 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1333 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1334 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1337 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1339 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1341 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1343 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1344 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1346 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1347 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1349 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1351 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1352 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1354 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1356 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1357 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1359 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1361 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1362 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1363 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1364 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1365 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1366 they will retry in-clear.
1367 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1368 at installation time.
1370 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1371 with the $config_file variable.
1373 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1374 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1375 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1376 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1377 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1379 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1380 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1381 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1382 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1383 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1385 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1387 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1388 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1389 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1390 list order is no longer honoured.
1392 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1393 for DKIM processing.
1395 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1396 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1398 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1399 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1400 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1401 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1403 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1404 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1406 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1407 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1409 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1410 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1412 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1414 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1415 cached by the daemon.
1417 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1418 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1420 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1421 keys are given for lookup.
1423 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1424 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1425 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1426 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1428 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1429 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1430 server-side so match that on older versions.
1432 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1433 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1434 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1436 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1437 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1439 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1440 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1441 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1442 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1443 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1444 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1445 initial truncated version.
1447 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1449 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1451 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1452 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1454 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1456 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1458 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1459 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1462 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1463 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1466 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1467 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1469 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1470 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1473 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1474 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1475 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1477 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1478 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1479 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1480 extraction. Accept either.
1486 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1489 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1491 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1494 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1495 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1496 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1497 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1499 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1500 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1501 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1503 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1504 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1505 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1508 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1511 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1512 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1513 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1514 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1515 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1517 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1518 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1519 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1521 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1523 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1524 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1526 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1527 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1529 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1532 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1533 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1535 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1536 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1537 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1539 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1540 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1541 specify a port-range.
1543 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1544 timeout value per server.
1546 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1547 now have the list separator specified.
1549 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1552 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1555 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1557 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1558 rather than the verbs used.
1560 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1561 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1563 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1565 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1566 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1568 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1569 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1571 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1572 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1574 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1576 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1578 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1579 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1580 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1581 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1583 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1585 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1586 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1588 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1589 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1591 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1593 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1595 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1597 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1598 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1600 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1601 added for tls authenticator.
1603 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1609 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1610 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1611 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1612 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1613 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1614 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1615 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1617 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1618 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1619 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1620 function when detected.
1622 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1623 cause callback expansion.
1625 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1626 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1627 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1628 instead of bool when processing it.
1630 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1631 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1633 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1635 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1637 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1639 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1640 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1642 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1643 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1644 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1645 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1646 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1647 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1649 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1650 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1653 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1654 version 3.3.6 or later.
1656 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1657 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1658 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1659 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1660 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1661 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1664 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1665 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1667 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1668 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1669 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1672 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1673 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1674 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1676 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1677 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1679 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1680 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1683 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1685 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1686 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1688 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1689 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1692 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1694 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1697 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1698 output list separator was used.
1703 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1704 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1707 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1708 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1710 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1712 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1713 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1719 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1721 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1722 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1723 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1724 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1725 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1726 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1728 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1729 utilities have not been installed.
1731 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1732 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1734 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1735 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1737 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1738 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1739 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1740 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1742 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1744 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1745 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1747 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1750 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1752 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1753 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1754 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1756 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1757 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1758 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1759 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1760 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1761 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1763 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1765 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1766 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1768 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1771 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1773 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1775 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1776 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1778 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1779 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1781 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1783 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1785 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1786 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1788 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1789 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1790 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1792 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1793 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1794 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1797 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1799 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1800 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1803 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1804 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1807 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1808 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1810 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1811 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1813 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1815 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1816 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1817 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1819 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1820 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1822 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1823 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1826 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1827 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1828 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1830 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1832 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1833 Christian Aistleitner.
1835 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1837 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1838 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1840 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1841 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1843 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1844 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1846 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1847 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1849 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1850 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1852 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1853 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1854 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1856 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1858 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1859 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1862 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1864 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1865 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1872 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1874 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1875 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1877 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1880 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1881 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1884 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1886 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1887 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1888 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1889 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1890 using channel bindings instead).
1892 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1893 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1894 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1895 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1896 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1899 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1901 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1903 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1904 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1906 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1907 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1908 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1910 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1912 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1914 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1915 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1917 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1919 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1921 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1923 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1924 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1926 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1928 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1929 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1932 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1933 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1935 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1936 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1939 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1941 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1943 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1944 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1946 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1949 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1950 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1952 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1953 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1955 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1957 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1959 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1962 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1965 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1967 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1968 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1969 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1970 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1972 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1974 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1975 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1976 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1977 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1980 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1981 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1982 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1984 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1985 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1986 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1987 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1989 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1990 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1991 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1992 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1993 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1994 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1995 delivery, as in LMTP.
1997 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1998 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2000 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2002 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2006 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2007 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2008 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2009 username as equal to the username.
2011 This change corrects that bug.
2013 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2014 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2015 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2017 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2019 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2020 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2021 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2022 NULL dereference and crash.
2024 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2026 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2027 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2028 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2030 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2032 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2033 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2034 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2035 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2036 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2037 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2038 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2039 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2040 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2041 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2042 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2044 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2045 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2047 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2048 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2051 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2052 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2053 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2054 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2055 an empty string is now equivalent.
2057 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2058 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2059 not performing validation itself.
2061 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2062 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2064 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2067 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2069 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2070 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2071 other false fix of the same issue.
2072 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2075 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2076 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2078 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2079 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2080 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2082 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2083 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2084 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2086 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2088 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2090 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2091 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2093 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2096 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2097 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2098 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2099 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2100 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2102 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2103 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2105 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2106 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2109 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2110 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2111 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2112 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2114 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2116 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2117 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2118 from multiple comments on this bug.
2120 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2122 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2123 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2126 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2127 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2129 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2130 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2136 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2138 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2144 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2145 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2146 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2148 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2150 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2153 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2155 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2157 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2159 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2160 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2162 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2163 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2165 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2166 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2168 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2169 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2170 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2172 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2174 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2175 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2177 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2179 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2181 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2182 non-compliant senders.
2183 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2185 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2186 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2187 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2189 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2190 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2191 in spool file corruption.
2193 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2194 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2195 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2198 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2199 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2200 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2202 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2203 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2205 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2207 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2209 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2211 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2212 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2213 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2215 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2216 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2217 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2218 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2220 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2221 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2223 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2224 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2225 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2226 resolver implementation change.
2228 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2229 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2231 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2233 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2235 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2236 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2238 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2239 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2241 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2242 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2244 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2245 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2246 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2247 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2248 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2250 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2252 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2253 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2254 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2256 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2258 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2259 read-only, out of scope).
2260 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2262 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2263 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2264 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2265 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2267 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2269 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2270 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2271 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2272 real issues in debug logging.
2274 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2275 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2277 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2278 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2279 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2281 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2282 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2283 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2286 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2287 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2289 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2290 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2291 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2292 needs to override this, it can.
2294 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2295 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2296 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2298 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2299 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2300 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2301 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2303 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2309 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2310 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2312 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2314 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2317 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2318 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2320 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2321 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2322 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2324 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2325 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2326 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2327 not safe for signals.
2329 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2330 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2331 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2332 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2335 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2337 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2338 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2339 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2340 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2341 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2343 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2344 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2345 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2346 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2347 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2348 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2350 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2351 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2352 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2353 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2355 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2356 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2357 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2358 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2360 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2361 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2362 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2363 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2364 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2365 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2366 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2367 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2368 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2370 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2371 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2372 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2373 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2375 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2376 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2377 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2378 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2379 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2380 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2381 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2382 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2383 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2384 details in the main documentation.
2386 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2388 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2390 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2391 repository when doing development or release builds.
2393 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2394 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2396 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2397 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2400 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2402 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2403 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2405 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2406 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2408 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2409 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2411 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2412 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2414 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2415 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2417 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2419 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2422 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2423 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2424 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2426 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2428 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2430 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2431 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2437 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2439 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2440 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2442 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2444 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2446 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2449 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2450 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2452 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2453 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2455 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2456 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2458 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2461 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2462 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2464 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2465 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2466 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2467 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2469 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2470 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2476 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2479 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2480 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2481 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2483 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2484 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2486 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2487 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2488 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2490 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2491 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2493 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2494 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2496 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2497 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2499 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2500 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2502 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2503 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2505 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2508 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2509 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2511 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2512 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2514 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2515 SQL string expansion failure details.
2516 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2518 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2519 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2521 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2522 extern declarations in function scope.
2523 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2525 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2526 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2527 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2530 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2531 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2533 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2534 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2536 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2537 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2539 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2540 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2542 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2543 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2546 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2548 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2550 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2551 Patch by Simon Arlott
2553 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2554 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2560 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2561 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2563 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2564 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2566 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2568 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2569 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2570 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2572 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2573 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2574 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2576 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2577 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2578 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2579 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2581 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2582 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2583 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2584 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2586 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2587 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2588 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2591 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2594 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2595 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2596 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2597 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2598 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2604 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2605 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2606 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2608 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2609 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2611 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2613 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2615 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2617 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2619 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2621 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2622 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2623 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2624 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2626 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2627 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2628 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2629 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2630 more caution in buffer sizes.
2632 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2634 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2636 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2638 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2640 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2642 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2644 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2646 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2647 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2648 ignore trailing whitespace.
2650 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2652 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2655 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2656 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2658 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2659 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2660 Notification from John Horne.
2662 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2665 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2666 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2669 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2672 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2673 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2674 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2676 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2677 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2678 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2681 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2682 option (effectively making it always true).
2684 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2685 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2687 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2688 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2690 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2691 run-time user, instead of root.
2693 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2694 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2696 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2697 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2700 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2701 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2702 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2704 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2706 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2712 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2713 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2716 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2717 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2720 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2721 Patch from Alain Williams
2723 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2725 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2726 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2728 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2729 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2731 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2733 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2735 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2736 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2738 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2740 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2742 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2743 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2744 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2746 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2747 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2749 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2750 Patch by Simon Arlott
2752 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2753 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2759 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2761 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2763 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2765 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2767 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2773 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2774 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2776 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2777 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2780 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2781 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2782 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2784 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2785 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2787 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2788 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2789 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2790 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2792 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2793 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2794 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2796 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2798 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2800 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2801 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2803 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2805 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2806 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2807 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2808 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2810 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2811 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2813 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2815 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2817 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2818 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2820 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2821 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2823 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2824 that they are available at delivery time.
2826 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2828 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2829 incoming_port log selectors.
2831 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2832 setting expands to an empty string.
2834 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2835 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2837 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2838 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2840 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2841 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2843 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2844 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2846 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2847 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2849 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2850 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2852 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2854 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2855 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2857 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2858 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2860 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2862 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2863 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2865 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2867 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2869 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2872 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2873 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2875 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2876 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2878 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2879 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2881 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2882 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2884 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2885 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2887 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2888 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2890 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2891 plus update to original patch.
2893 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2895 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2896 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2898 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2900 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2902 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2904 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2906 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2907 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2909 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2910 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2912 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2913 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2915 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2916 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2918 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2920 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2922 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2924 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2930 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2931 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2932 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2934 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2935 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2936 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2937 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2938 build errors in sieve.c.
2940 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2941 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2942 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2944 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2946 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2948 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2950 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2956 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2958 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2959 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2960 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2961 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2962 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2963 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2964 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2965 for iplsearch lookups.
2967 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2968 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2969 previously such lookups could never work.
2971 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2972 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2973 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2975 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2978 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2979 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2980 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2981 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2982 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2983 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2985 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2986 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2988 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2989 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2990 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2991 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2992 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2993 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2995 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2998 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3000 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3001 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3004 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3005 by clients under certain conditions.
3007 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3008 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3010 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3012 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3013 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3015 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3017 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3019 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3021 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3022 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3024 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3026 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3027 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3029 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3031 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3033 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3034 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3035 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3036 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3038 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3039 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3040 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3042 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3043 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3045 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3047 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3049 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3051 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3052 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3053 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3059 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3060 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3063 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3064 issue a MAIL command.
3066 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3068 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3070 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3071 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3072 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3073 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3074 item. This has been fixed.
3076 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3077 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3079 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3080 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3082 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3083 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3084 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3086 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3088 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3089 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3090 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3091 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3092 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3094 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3095 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3096 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3098 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3099 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3100 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3101 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3103 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3105 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3107 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3108 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3109 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3110 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3111 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3113 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3115 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3116 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3117 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3120 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3122 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3124 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3126 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3128 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3130 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3131 no_callout_flush is set.
3133 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3134 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3135 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3138 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3140 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3141 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3142 other ACL rejections are.
3144 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3145 with slight modification.
3147 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3148 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3150 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3151 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3154 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3155 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3157 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3159 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3160 expansion side effects.
3162 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3163 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3164 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3167 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3168 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3169 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3171 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3172 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3173 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3174 were accidentally chopped off.
3176 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3177 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3178 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3179 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3180 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3181 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3182 pipelining has not been advertised.
3184 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3186 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3187 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3188 This has been fixed.
3190 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3191 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3192 reported on Solaris.
3194 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3195 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3196 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3197 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3198 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3199 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3200 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3202 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3205 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3207 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3209 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3210 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3211 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3212 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3213 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3214 criteria to be more general.
3216 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3217 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3218 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3219 host_all_ignored option.
3221 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3222 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3223 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3224 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3225 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3226 is what is supposed to happen).
3228 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3229 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3230 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3231 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3232 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3235 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3236 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3237 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3238 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3239 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3240 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3243 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3245 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3246 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3248 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3249 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3251 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3253 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3255 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3256 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3257 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3258 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3259 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3260 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3261 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3262 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3263 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3264 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3265 least in a lot of common cases.
3267 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3268 advertised in response to EHLO.
3274 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3275 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3277 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3278 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3280 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3281 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3282 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3284 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3285 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3286 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3287 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3288 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3294 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3295 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3298 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3299 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3300 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3302 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3303 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3304 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3305 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3306 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3307 rather than extend the field.
3313 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3314 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3315 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3316 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3319 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3320 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3321 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3323 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3324 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3325 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3327 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3328 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3329 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3332 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3333 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3334 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3335 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3336 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3337 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3338 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3339 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3340 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3341 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3342 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3344 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3347 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3348 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3349 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3350 ignores EPIPE as well.
3352 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3353 (quoted-printable decoding).
3355 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3356 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3358 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3360 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3362 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3364 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3365 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3367 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3370 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3371 miscellaneous code fixes
3373 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3376 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3377 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3378 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3379 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3380 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3381 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3382 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3383 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3385 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3386 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3387 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3388 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3390 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3391 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3392 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3393 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3394 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3395 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3396 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3397 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3398 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3400 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3403 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3404 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3405 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3406 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3407 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3408 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3409 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3410 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3412 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3413 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3416 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3417 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3418 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3419 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3420 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3421 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3422 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3423 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3424 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3425 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3426 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3427 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3428 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3430 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3431 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3432 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3433 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3434 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3435 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3436 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3438 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3439 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3440 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3441 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3442 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3443 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3444 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3445 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3446 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3447 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3449 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3450 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3451 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3452 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3453 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3455 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3456 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3457 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3458 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3459 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3460 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3461 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3463 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3464 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3465 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3466 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3467 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3468 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3471 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3472 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3473 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3476 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3477 if any retry times were supplied.
3479 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3480 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3481 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3483 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3485 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3487 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3488 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3489 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3490 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3491 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3492 before) are ignored.
3494 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3495 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3497 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3498 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3499 committing the later change.]
3501 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3502 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3503 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3504 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3505 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3506 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3507 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3508 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3509 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3511 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3512 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3513 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3514 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3515 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3516 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3517 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3518 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3519 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3521 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3522 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3523 hammering the server.
3525 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3526 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3528 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3530 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3531 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3532 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3534 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3535 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3536 one case where this was not true.
3538 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3539 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3540 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3541 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3544 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3545 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3546 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3547 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3548 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3549 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3550 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3551 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3552 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3555 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3556 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3557 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3558 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3560 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3561 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3563 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3564 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3565 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3567 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3569 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3571 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3573 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3574 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3575 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3576 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3578 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3579 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3581 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3582 be meaningful with "accept".
3584 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3585 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3587 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3588 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3589 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3591 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3592 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3593 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3594 there is data to show.
3595 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3597 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3598 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3599 as well as the number of messages.
3601 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3602 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3603 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3605 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3606 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3607 have a flag are now skipped.
3609 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3610 Added the -emptyok flag.
3612 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3613 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3615 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3616 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3617 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3619 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3622 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3623 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3625 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3627 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3628 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3630 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3632 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3633 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3634 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3635 contravention of the specifications.
3637 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3638 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3639 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3641 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3642 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3643 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3645 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3647 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3648 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3649 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3650 some point in the past.
3652 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3653 transport during callout processing was broken.
3655 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3656 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3658 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3659 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3661 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3662 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3664 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3670 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3671 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3673 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3674 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3675 there is data to show.
3676 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3678 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3679 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3681 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3682 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3684 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3685 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3687 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3688 submissions from trusted users.
3690 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3691 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3693 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3694 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3695 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3696 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3697 there is now a framework to start from.
3699 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3700 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3701 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3703 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3705 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3707 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3709 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3710 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3711 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3713 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3716 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3717 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3718 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3720 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3721 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3722 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3725 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3726 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3727 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3728 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3729 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3731 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3732 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3734 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3736 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3737 operations in malware.c.
3739 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3742 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3743 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3744 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3747 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3748 statements to "add_header".
3750 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3751 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3753 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3754 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3757 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3761 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3762 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3763 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3766 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3767 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3769 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3770 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3772 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3773 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3774 any possible encoding problems.
3776 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3777 but not after initializing Perl.
3779 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3780 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3781 apparently, which is not desirable.
3783 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3786 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3789 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3791 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3792 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3793 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3794 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3796 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3797 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3798 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3800 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3801 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3802 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3805 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3806 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3807 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3808 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3809 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3815 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3816 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3818 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3821 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3822 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3823 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3824 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3825 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3826 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3827 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3828 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3831 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3833 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3834 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3835 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3837 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3838 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3839 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3842 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3843 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3845 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3846 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3847 option (which defaults to 0600).
3849 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3851 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3852 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3853 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3854 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3855 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3856 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3857 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3859 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3865 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3866 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3867 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3868 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3869 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3870 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3873 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3874 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3876 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3878 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3879 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3880 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3881 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3882 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3885 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3886 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3888 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3889 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3890 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3891 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3892 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3894 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3895 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3896 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3897 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3899 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3900 be the same on different OS.
3902 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3905 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3906 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3908 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3911 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3912 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3913 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3914 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3915 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3916 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3919 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3920 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3921 when Exim was called.
3923 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3924 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3926 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3927 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3928 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3929 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3931 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3932 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3933 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3934 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3937 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3938 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3939 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3941 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3942 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3943 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3945 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3948 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3949 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3950 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3951 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3952 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3953 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3954 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3955 values from the SRV records were lost.
3957 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3958 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3959 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3961 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3962 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3963 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3965 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3966 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3967 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3968 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3969 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3970 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3971 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3972 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3973 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3974 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3976 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3977 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3978 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3980 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3981 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3983 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3984 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3985 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3986 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3989 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3990 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3991 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3993 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3994 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3995 PH/23 above applies.
3997 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3998 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3999 (for which there is an explicit test).
4001 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4003 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4004 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4005 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4006 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4007 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4009 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4010 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4011 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4012 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4014 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4015 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4016 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4018 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4020 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4022 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4023 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4024 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4026 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4027 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4028 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4029 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4030 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4032 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4033 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4034 the message gets confusing).
4036 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4037 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4038 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4039 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4041 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4042 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4043 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4044 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4047 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4048 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4049 the different processes.
4051 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4053 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4055 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4056 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4058 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4059 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4061 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4062 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4063 messages matching specified criteria.
4065 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4067 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4068 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4070 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4071 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4072 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4073 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4074 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4075 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4076 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4077 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4078 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4079 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4081 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4082 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4083 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4085 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4087 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4088 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4089 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4090 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4091 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4092 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4093 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4096 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4097 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4099 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4101 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4103 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4105 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4106 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4107 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4108 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4109 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4110 size of the count of files.
4112 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4114 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4117 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4118 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4119 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4120 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4122 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4123 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4124 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4126 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4127 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4128 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4129 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4130 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4132 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4133 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4135 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4136 will now be deprecated.
4138 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4140 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4141 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4142 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4144 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4145 with very large, slow to parse queues
4147 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4149 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4151 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4152 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4153 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4156 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4157 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4158 Sieve code now uses this.
4160 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4161 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4163 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4164 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4166 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4168 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4169 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4170 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4171 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4172 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4174 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4175 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4176 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4177 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4179 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4181 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4183 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4184 is preferred over IPv4.
4186 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4187 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4188 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4189 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4190 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4191 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4192 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4194 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4195 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4196 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4198 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4200 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4201 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4202 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4203 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4204 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4205 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4206 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4207 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4208 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4209 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4210 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4212 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4213 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4214 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4220 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4222 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4223 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4225 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4226 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4227 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4229 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4231 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4234 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4237 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4238 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4239 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4242 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4243 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4245 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4246 inside the third argument.
4248 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4249 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4252 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4253 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4255 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4256 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4258 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4260 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4261 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4264 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4266 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4267 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4268 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4269 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4270 identical. For example:
4272 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4274 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4275 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4276 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4278 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4279 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4280 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4281 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4283 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4284 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4285 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4288 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4290 o fixes some comments
4291 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4292 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4293 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4294 and documents the missing references header update
4298 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4299 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4302 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4303 Electronic Mail") by including:
4305 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4307 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4308 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4309 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4310 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4311 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4313 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4315 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4317 The auto-replied keyword:
4319 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4320 message by an automatic process,
4322 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4324 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4325 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4327 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4328 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4331 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4332 to the default Received: header definition.
4334 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4336 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4337 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4338 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4340 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4341 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4342 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4344 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4345 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4346 and treats the condition as false.
4348 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4350 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4351 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4352 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4353 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4354 not changing the active code.
4356 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4357 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4359 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4360 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4362 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4365 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4366 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4367 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4368 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4369 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4370 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4371 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4372 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4373 the text comparison.
4375 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4376 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4377 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4378 The same fix has been applied.
4384 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4385 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4388 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4389 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4391 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4393 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4394 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4395 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4396 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4397 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4399 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4400 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4401 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4402 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4405 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4413 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4414 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4416 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4418 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4420 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4421 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4422 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4424 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4425 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4426 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4428 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4429 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4432 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4433 ${stat: expansion item.
4435 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4436 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4438 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4439 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4442 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4444 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4447 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4448 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4450 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4452 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4453 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4454 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4455 the end of the subprocess.
4457 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4458 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4459 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4460 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4461 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4463 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4465 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4467 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4468 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4470 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4472 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4474 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4475 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4478 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4480 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4481 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4482 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4484 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4485 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4487 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4488 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4490 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4491 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4493 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4494 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4496 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4497 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4498 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4499 contributed by a Radius user.
4501 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4502 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4504 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4505 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4507 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4510 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4511 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4514 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4515 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4516 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4517 header lines when this was not necessary.
4519 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4521 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4522 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4523 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4526 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4529 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4530 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4531 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4532 return code was incorrect.
4534 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4536 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4538 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4540 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4542 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4543 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4544 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4545 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4546 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4549 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4551 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4552 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4553 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4554 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4555 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4556 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4557 which is clearly wrong.
4559 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4561 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4562 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4563 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4566 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4567 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4569 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4571 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4572 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4574 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4575 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4577 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4578 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4580 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4581 recipients, not senders.
4583 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4584 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4586 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4588 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4590 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4591 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4592 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4593 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4595 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4597 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4598 clock is set back in time.
4600 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4601 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4603 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4604 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4606 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4607 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4610 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4611 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4614 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4617 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4619 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4620 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4621 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4623 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4624 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4625 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4626 helo verification defer as a failure.
4628 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4629 actual error message.
4635 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4637 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4638 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4639 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4640 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4642 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4644 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4645 can still be requested.
4647 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4648 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4649 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4650 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4652 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4653 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4654 circumstances, but probably never did.
4656 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4657 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4658 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4661 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4663 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4664 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4666 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4668 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4670 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4671 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4672 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4673 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4674 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4675 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4677 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4678 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4679 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4680 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4681 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4682 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4684 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4685 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4687 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4688 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4690 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4691 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4693 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4695 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4697 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4699 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4701 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4703 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4705 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4707 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4708 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4709 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4711 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4712 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4713 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4714 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4716 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4717 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4718 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4720 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4721 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4722 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4723 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4725 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4726 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4729 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4730 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4731 should work with maildirs and everything.
4733 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4734 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4736 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4739 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4740 function for BDB 4.3.
4742 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4744 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4745 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4748 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4749 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4750 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4751 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4752 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4753 formatting function string_vformat().
4755 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4756 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4757 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4758 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4759 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4760 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4761 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4762 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4764 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4765 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4768 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4769 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4771 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4772 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4773 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4774 test. It is now used for both.
4776 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4777 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4778 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4779 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4780 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4781 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4783 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4784 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4785 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4788 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4789 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4790 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4792 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4793 experimental DomainKeys support:
4795 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4796 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4797 the control was given.
4799 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4801 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4803 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4805 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4806 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4807 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4810 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4811 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4812 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4813 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4814 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4815 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4818 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4819 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4820 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4821 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4822 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4823 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4825 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4826 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4827 do -d+all out of habit.
4829 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4830 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4833 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4834 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4835 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4836 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4837 record types that Exim uses.
4839 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4840 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4841 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4842 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4843 non-existent file that was broken.
4845 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4846 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4848 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4849 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4850 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4852 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4854 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4855 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4856 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4857 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4858 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4861 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4862 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4863 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4864 at a slight CPU cost.
4866 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4867 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4869 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4872 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4874 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4875 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4881 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4882 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4884 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4886 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4888 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4889 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4891 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4892 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4893 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4894 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4895 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4896 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4899 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4900 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4901 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4902 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4905 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4906 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4907 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4908 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4909 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4910 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4911 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4914 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4915 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4917 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4918 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4919 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4920 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4921 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4922 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4924 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4925 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4926 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4927 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4929 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4932 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4933 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4935 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4936 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4937 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4938 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4941 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4943 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4944 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4946 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4947 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4948 to what was transported.)
4950 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4952 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4953 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4954 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4955 spamd_address settings.
4957 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4958 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4959 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4960 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4961 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4963 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4965 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4966 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4967 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4968 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4969 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4971 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4972 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4974 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4975 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4976 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4977 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4978 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4979 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4980 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4983 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4984 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4985 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4986 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4987 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4988 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4989 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4992 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4994 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4995 driver and ACL definitions.
4997 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4998 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5000 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5001 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5002 understands it better than I do:
5004 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5005 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5007 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5008 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5009 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5010 => three warnings about OTP not working
5011 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5013 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5014 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5015 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5016 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5018 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5019 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5021 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5022 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5023 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5025 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5026 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5029 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5030 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5033 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5034 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5035 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5037 warn !verify = sender
5038 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5040 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5041 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5043 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5045 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5046 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5048 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5049 nomenclature these days.)
5051 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5052 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5054 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5055 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5056 . First host does not offer TLS;
5057 . First host accepts first address;
5058 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5059 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5060 . Second host accepts second address.
5061 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5062 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5065 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5066 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5067 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5068 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5069 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5071 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5072 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5074 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5075 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5077 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5078 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5079 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5081 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5082 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5085 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5087 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5088 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5089 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5090 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5091 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5092 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5093 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5095 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5096 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5097 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5098 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5099 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5101 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5102 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5105 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5106 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5107 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5108 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5109 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5110 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5112 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5114 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5115 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5116 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5117 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5118 printable escape sequences.
5120 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5121 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5124 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5125 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5128 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5129 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5130 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5131 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5132 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5134 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5135 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5136 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5138 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5140 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5141 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5144 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5145 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5146 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5147 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5148 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5149 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5150 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5151 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5152 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5155 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5156 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5157 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5158 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5162 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5163 ----------------------------------------
5165 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5166 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5167 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5168 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5169 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5170 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5173 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5174 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5175 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5176 historical information.
5182 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5184 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5185 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5187 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5188 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5191 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5192 filter fails to execute.
5194 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5195 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5196 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5197 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5198 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5200 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5202 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5203 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5204 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5205 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5207 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5208 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5209 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5210 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5211 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5213 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5215 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5217 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5218 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5219 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5220 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5222 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5223 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5224 sender verification.
5226 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5227 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5229 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5231 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5234 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5235 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5237 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5238 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5240 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5241 information about exactly what failed.
5243 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5245 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5246 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5247 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5249 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5250 It is now set to "smtps".
5252 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5253 ignore_target_hosts.
5255 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5256 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5257 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5258 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5261 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5262 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5263 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5265 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5266 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5267 wake it up if nothing else does.
5269 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5270 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5271 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5274 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5275 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5277 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5279 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5280 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5281 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5282 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5283 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5284 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5285 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5286 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5288 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5289 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5290 than one IP address.
5292 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5293 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5294 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5295 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5297 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5298 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5299 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5300 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5301 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5304 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5305 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5306 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5307 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5309 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5310 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5313 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5314 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5315 $sender_host_address.
5317 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5318 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5319 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5320 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5321 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5324 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5326 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5327 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5329 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5330 just the host names, not the priorities.
5332 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5333 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5334 controlled by a keyword.
5336 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5337 multiple records are returned.
5339 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5340 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5343 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5345 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5346 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5348 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5349 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5350 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5352 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5354 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5356 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5358 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5359 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5360 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5361 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5362 because the tests only now provoked it.
5364 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5365 (this can affect the format of dates).
5367 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5368 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5369 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5370 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5372 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5374 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5375 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5376 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5377 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5379 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5380 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5381 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5383 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5386 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5387 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5388 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5389 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5390 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5391 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5394 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5395 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5396 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5399 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5400 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5401 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5403 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5404 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5405 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5406 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5407 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5408 so I produce this patch..."
5410 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5411 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5414 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5415 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5416 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5417 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5420 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5422 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5423 long debug lines gets shown.
5425 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5426 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5428 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5430 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5431 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5432 of $primary_hostname.
5434 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5435 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5436 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5437 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5438 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5439 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5440 by change 4.50/55 above.
5442 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5443 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5444 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5445 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5446 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5447 running as the user.
5450 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5451 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5452 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5455 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5456 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5458 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5459 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5460 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5461 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5462 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5464 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5465 This has been fixed.
5467 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5468 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5469 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5470 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5473 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5475 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5476 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5477 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5478 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5480 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5481 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5483 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5484 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5485 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5487 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5488 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5489 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5492 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5493 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5494 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5496 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5497 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5498 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5499 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5501 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5502 during host lookups.
5504 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5505 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5507 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5509 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5510 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5511 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5512 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5513 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5516 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5517 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5519 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5520 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5521 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5523 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5525 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5526 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5527 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5528 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5529 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5530 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5533 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5534 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5535 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5536 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5537 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5539 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5542 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5544 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5545 "vacation" handling.
5547 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5548 OS variants using glibc.
5550 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5553 ----------------------------------------------------
5554 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5555 ----------------------------------------------------
5561 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5562 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5565 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5566 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5569 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5570 filter fails to execute.
5572 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5573 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5574 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5575 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5576 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5578 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5579 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5580 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5581 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5583 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5584 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5585 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5586 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5587 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5589 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5591 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5592 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5593 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5594 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5596 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5597 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5598 sender verification.
5600 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5601 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5603 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5604 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5606 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5607 ignore_target_hosts.
5609 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5610 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5611 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5612 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5615 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5616 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5617 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5619 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5620 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5621 wake it up if nothing else does.
5623 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5624 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5625 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5628 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5629 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5631 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5633 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5634 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5637 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5638 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5641 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5642 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5643 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5644 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5645 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5648 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5649 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5652 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5653 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5654 $sender_host_address.
5656 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5658 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5659 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5660 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5662 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5665 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5666 (this can affect the format of dates).
5668 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5669 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5670 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5671 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5673 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5674 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5675 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5677 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5678 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5679 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5680 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5682 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5683 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5684 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5686 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5689 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5690 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5691 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5692 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5693 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5694 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5697 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5698 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5699 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5700 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5703 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5704 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5705 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5706 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5707 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5708 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5709 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5711 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5712 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5713 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5714 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5715 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5716 running as the user.
5719 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5720 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5721 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5724 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5725 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5726 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5727 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5728 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5730 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5731 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5732 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5733 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5736 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5737 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5738 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5739 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5740 because the tests only now provoked it.
5746 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5747 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5748 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5749 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5750 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5751 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5752 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5754 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5755 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5758 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5760 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5762 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5763 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5766 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5767 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5768 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5769 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5770 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5772 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5773 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5775 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5777 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5779 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5782 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5783 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5785 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5786 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5787 affecting debugging statements).
5789 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5791 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5792 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5793 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5794 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5795 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5796 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5797 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5798 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5799 after the received time, and all would be well.
5801 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5802 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5803 condition in an expansion string.
5805 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5807 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5808 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5809 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5810 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5811 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5812 job under whatever limits there are.
5814 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5816 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5819 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5820 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5821 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5822 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5825 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5826 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5827 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5828 binary data in such strings.
5830 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5832 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5833 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5834 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5835 failure, which is pointless.
5837 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5839 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5841 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5842 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5843 Sender: header lines.
5845 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5846 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5847 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5849 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5850 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5851 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5852 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5853 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5856 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5857 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5858 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5859 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5860 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5862 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5863 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5864 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5867 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5868 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5870 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5871 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5873 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5875 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5877 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5879 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5882 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5884 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5886 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5887 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5888 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5889 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5891 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5892 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5898 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5899 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5900 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5902 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5903 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5904 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5905 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5906 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5907 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5909 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5910 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5911 verification failure".
5913 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5914 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5915 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5916 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5918 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5919 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5920 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5921 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5922 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5923 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5924 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5925 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5926 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5927 treated as a timeout.
5929 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5930 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5931 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5932 not set for Exim filters).
5934 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5935 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5936 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5938 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5940 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5941 try to make them clearer.
5943 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5944 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5946 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5948 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5950 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5951 only the Cygwin environment.
5953 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5954 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5955 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5956 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5957 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5959 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5960 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5961 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5962 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5963 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5964 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5965 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5967 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5968 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5970 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5972 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5973 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5974 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5976 To: susanne@some.where
5978 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5979 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5980 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5981 of addresses in From: header lines).
5983 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5984 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5985 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5987 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5988 treated as non-personal.
5990 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5991 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5993 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5995 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5997 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5998 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5999 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6001 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6002 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6004 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6005 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6006 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6007 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6008 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6009 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6011 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6012 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6013 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6014 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6015 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6016 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6017 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6018 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6020 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6022 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6023 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6025 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6026 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6027 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6029 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6030 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6032 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6033 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6034 rather than long int.
6036 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6038 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6044 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6045 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6046 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6047 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6048 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6049 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6055 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6056 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6058 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6059 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6060 socklen_t is defined.
6062 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6065 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6068 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6069 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6070 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6071 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6072 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6074 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6075 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6076 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6077 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6079 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6080 of flapping under certain conditions.
6082 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6083 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6084 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6086 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6088 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6090 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6091 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6092 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6093 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6095 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6096 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6097 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6098 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6099 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6100 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6101 preserved with the message after it was received.
6103 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6104 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6105 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6106 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6107 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6108 test suite worked just fine.
6110 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6111 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6112 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6114 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6115 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6118 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6119 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6120 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6121 does not fully solve it.
6123 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6124 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6125 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6126 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6127 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6129 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6130 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6131 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6133 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6134 string, for example:
6136 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6138 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6139 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6140 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6141 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6142 the routers could not see them.
6144 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6145 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6147 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6148 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6151 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6152 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6153 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6154 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6155 that needed quoting.
6157 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6158 was not being matched caselessly.
6160 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6163 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6164 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6165 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6166 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6167 when use_sender is false.
6169 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6171 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6173 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6175 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6176 the configuration file.
6178 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6179 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6181 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6183 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6184 bytes in the message body.
6186 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6187 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6190 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6192 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6194 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6195 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6196 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6197 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6204 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6205 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6207 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6208 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6209 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6210 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6211 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6213 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6214 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6216 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6217 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6218 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6220 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6221 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6222 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6224 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6227 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6228 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6229 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6230 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6231 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6232 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6233 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6239 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6240 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6241 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6242 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6243 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6244 default (and expected) setting.
6246 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6247 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6248 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6249 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6251 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6252 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6254 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6257 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6258 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6259 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6260 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6261 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6262 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6264 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6265 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6266 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6268 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6269 part (NOT match_host).
6271 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6273 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6274 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6275 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6276 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6277 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6278 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6279 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6280 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6281 the same named file.
6283 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6284 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6287 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6288 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6289 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6290 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6293 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6294 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6295 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6297 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6299 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6301 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6303 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6304 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6306 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6307 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6308 before starting the TLS session.
6310 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6312 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6313 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6315 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6316 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6317 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6318 colon in the middle).
6324 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6325 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6326 multiple configurations are in use.
6328 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6329 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6330 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6331 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6332 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6333 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6335 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6336 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6338 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6339 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6340 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6342 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6343 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6346 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6347 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6349 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6351 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6352 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6354 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6362 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6363 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6364 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6365 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6366 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6368 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6371 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6372 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6373 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6374 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6375 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6376 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6378 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6379 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6380 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6381 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6382 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6383 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6384 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6387 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6388 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6389 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6390 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6391 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6393 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6395 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6396 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6397 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6399 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6401 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6402 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6403 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6406 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6407 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6409 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6410 Three changes have been made:
6412 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6413 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6414 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6415 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6416 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6418 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6421 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6422 the modified behaviour.
6428 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6431 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6432 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6434 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6435 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6436 try to track down a specific problem.
6438 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6439 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6440 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6442 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6445 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6446 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6447 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6448 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6449 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6450 some earlier ones do not.
6452 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6454 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6455 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6456 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6457 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6458 address literals are enabled, of course).
6460 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6462 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6463 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6464 by a command such as
6468 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6470 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6472 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6473 remained set. It is now erased.
6475 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6476 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6478 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6479 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6480 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6481 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6482 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6483 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6484 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6485 appropriate error code.
6487 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6488 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6489 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6490 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6491 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6492 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6494 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6495 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6496 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6498 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6499 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6500 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6501 terminate the header.
6503 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6504 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6505 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6507 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6508 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6509 (4.30/29). In particular:
6511 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6514 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6515 to write a maildirsize file.
6517 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6518 the transport, the new value overrides.
6520 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6523 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6524 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6525 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6528 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6529 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6530 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6533 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6534 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6535 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6537 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6538 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6541 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6542 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6543 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6545 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6547 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6549 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6551 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6552 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6555 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6556 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6557 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6558 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6559 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6560 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6561 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6564 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6565 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6566 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6567 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6568 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6571 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6572 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6573 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6574 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6575 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6576 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6577 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6578 cached value only when the same options are set.
6580 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6582 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6583 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6584 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6585 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6586 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6588 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6589 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6590 it is clearly obsolete.
6592 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6595 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6596 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6597 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6600 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6601 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6602 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6603 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6604 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6606 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6607 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6608 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6609 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6611 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6613 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6615 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6616 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6619 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6620 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6621 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6622 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6623 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6624 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6627 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6628 with the -f command-line option.
6630 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6631 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6632 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6633 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6634 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6635 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6637 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6638 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6641 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6642 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6643 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6644 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6645 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6646 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6647 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6648 buffer is too small.
6650 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6651 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6653 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6654 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6655 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6656 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6657 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6658 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6659 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6660 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6661 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6663 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6664 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6665 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6667 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6668 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6671 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6672 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6673 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6674 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6675 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6677 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6678 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6679 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6680 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6683 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6685 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6687 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6688 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6690 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6691 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6692 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6694 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6695 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6696 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6697 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6698 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6700 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6701 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6702 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6703 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6704 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6705 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6706 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6708 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6709 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6710 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6711 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6712 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6713 the test of how many are available.
6715 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6716 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6717 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6718 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6719 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6720 new message is started.
6722 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6723 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6725 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6726 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6728 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6729 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6730 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6733 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6734 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6735 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6736 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6737 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6738 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6739 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6741 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6742 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6743 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6744 interpreted as octal.
6746 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6749 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6750 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6751 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6752 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6753 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6754 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6756 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6757 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6758 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6759 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6761 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6762 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6763 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6764 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6766 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6767 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6770 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6771 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6773 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6775 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6776 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6777 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6778 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6780 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6781 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6782 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6783 supplied", which is not helpful.
6785 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6786 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6787 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6789 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6790 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6791 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6792 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6793 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6794 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6795 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6796 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6798 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6799 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6800 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6801 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6802 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6804 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6805 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6806 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6807 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6808 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6809 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6811 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6812 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6813 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6815 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6817 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6818 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6819 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6822 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6824 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6825 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6826 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6827 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6828 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6829 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6830 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6831 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6833 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6834 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6835 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6836 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6837 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6839 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6842 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6843 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6844 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6845 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6846 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6847 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6848 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6849 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6850 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6856 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6857 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6858 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6860 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6863 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6864 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6865 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6867 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6868 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6869 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6870 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6871 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6872 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6874 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6875 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6876 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6877 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6878 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6879 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6880 the Exim test suite.
6882 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6883 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6884 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6885 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6887 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6888 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6889 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6890 specify it in this variable.
6892 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6893 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6894 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6895 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6897 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6898 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6899 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6900 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6902 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6903 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6904 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6905 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6906 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6908 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6910 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6913 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6914 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6915 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6916 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6917 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6919 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6920 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6922 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6923 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6924 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6925 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6926 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6928 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6929 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6931 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6932 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6933 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6935 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6936 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6938 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6939 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6941 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6942 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6943 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6945 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6946 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6948 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6949 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6950 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6951 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6953 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6955 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6956 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6957 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6958 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6960 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6962 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6963 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6965 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6967 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6968 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6969 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6970 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6971 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6972 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6974 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6976 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6977 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6980 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6982 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6983 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6985 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6986 550 Sender verify failed
6988 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6989 the final line of the response.
6991 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6992 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6993 all other user lookups.
6995 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6998 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6999 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7000 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7001 result into an int without checking.
7003 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7004 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7005 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7007 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7008 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7009 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7010 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7012 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7015 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7016 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7018 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7019 to the empty sender.
7021 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7022 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7023 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7024 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7025 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7026 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7027 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7030 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7031 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7032 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7033 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7036 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7037 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7039 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7042 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7043 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7045 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7047 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7048 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7051 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7052 as soon as it is encountered.
7054 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7056 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7059 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7060 recognizes a tab character.
7062 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7063 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7064 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7065 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7067 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7069 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7072 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7074 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7076 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7077 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7080 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7081 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7082 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7083 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7084 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7086 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7087 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7089 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7090 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7091 list (.included file names were always shown).
7093 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7094 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7095 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7098 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7099 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7101 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7103 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7105 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7107 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7108 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7109 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7110 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7111 failures to open the logs.
7113 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7114 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7115 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7116 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7117 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7118 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7119 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7125 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7126 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7127 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7130 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7131 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7132 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7134 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7135 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7136 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7138 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7139 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7140 causing some misleading effects.
7142 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7143 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7144 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7146 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7147 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7148 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7149 queue-runner function directly.
7155 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7158 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7159 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7160 was always written to the default place.
7162 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7163 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7164 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7166 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7168 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7170 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7171 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7172 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7174 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7175 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7178 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7179 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7180 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7182 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7183 command line option is disabled.
7185 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7186 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7188 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7190 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7192 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7193 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7195 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7197 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7198 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7199 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7200 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7201 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7202 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7204 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7205 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7208 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7209 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7211 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7212 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7214 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7215 received was valid base64.
7217 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7218 name of the variable that was being set.
7220 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7222 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7223 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7224 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7225 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7226 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7227 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7229 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7231 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7232 nor realm was specified.
7234 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7235 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7236 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7237 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7239 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7240 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7241 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7243 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7244 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7245 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7247 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7248 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7249 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7250 some systems use these upper case variants.
7252 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7253 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7254 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7255 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7257 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7259 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7260 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7262 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7263 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7266 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7268 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7269 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7270 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7271 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7273 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7276 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7277 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7278 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7280 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7281 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7283 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7284 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7285 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7286 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7288 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7289 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7290 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7292 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7294 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7295 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7296 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7297 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7300 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7301 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7302 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7304 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7306 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7307 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7309 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7310 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7312 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7313 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7314 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7315 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7316 when emails are that large.
7323 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7324 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7326 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7327 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7328 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7330 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7331 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7332 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7334 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7335 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7336 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7337 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7338 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7340 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7341 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7342 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7343 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7344 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7347 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7348 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7349 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7350 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7351 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7352 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7353 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7354 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7355 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7356 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7357 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7358 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7359 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7360 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7362 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7363 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7366 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7367 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7368 error should be diagnosed.
7370 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7371 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7372 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7373 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7374 appeared instead of "NULL".
7376 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7377 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7378 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7379 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7380 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7381 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7384 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7385 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7386 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7392 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7393 or receiver verification errors.
7395 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7398 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7399 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7400 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7401 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7403 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7404 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7405 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7406 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7407 shouldn't happen again.
7409 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7410 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7411 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7413 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7414 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7416 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7418 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7419 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7421 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7422 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7425 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7426 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7427 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7429 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7430 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7431 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7432 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7434 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7435 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7436 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7437 to define what should happen).
7439 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7440 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7441 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7443 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7445 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7447 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7448 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7450 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7451 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7452 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7453 structure in all cases.
7455 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7456 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7457 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7458 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7460 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7461 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7464 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7465 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7467 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7468 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7470 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7471 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7472 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7474 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7475 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7476 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7478 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7479 the book and for uniformity.
7481 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7483 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7484 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7485 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7486 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7487 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7488 non-existent command as the problem.
7490 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7491 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7492 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7494 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7496 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7497 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7498 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7500 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7501 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7502 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7503 timestamps using strftime().
7505 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7506 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7508 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7509 transport-time rewrites.
7511 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7512 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7513 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7514 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7516 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7517 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7519 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7520 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7521 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7522 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7525 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7526 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7527 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7528 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7529 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7530 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7531 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7533 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7534 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7535 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7536 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7537 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7539 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7540 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7541 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7542 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7543 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7544 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7545 remaining text gets split now.
7547 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7548 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7549 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7550 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7552 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7553 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7554 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7555 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7558 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7559 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7560 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7561 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7562 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7563 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7564 passed through if needed.
7566 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7567 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7568 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7569 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7570 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7571 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7573 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7574 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7575 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7576 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7577 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7579 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7580 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7581 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7582 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7583 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7585 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7586 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7589 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7590 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7591 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7592 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7593 mayhem of various kinds.
7595 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7596 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7597 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7598 the right test for positive values.
7600 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7601 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7602 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7603 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7604 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7605 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7606 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7607 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7608 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7609 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7612 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7615 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7616 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7619 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7620 the existing equality matching.
7622 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7623 dealing with inode numbers.
7625 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7626 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7627 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7629 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7630 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7631 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7632 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7635 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7636 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7637 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7638 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7639 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7640 relay addresses has also been removed.
7642 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7644 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7645 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7646 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7648 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7649 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7650 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7651 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7652 processing applies to CR:
7654 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7655 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7657 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7658 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7659 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7660 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7662 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7663 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7664 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7666 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7667 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7668 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7669 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7670 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7671 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7674 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7677 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7678 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7679 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7680 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7683 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7685 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7687 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7689 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7690 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7691 not considered personal.
7693 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7695 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7697 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7699 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7700 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7701 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7702 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7703 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7704 header lines, and spool format errors.
7706 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7707 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7708 for more flexibility.
7710 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7711 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7712 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7714 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7717 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7718 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7719 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7720 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7721 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7722 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7723 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7724 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7725 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7727 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7728 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7729 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7730 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7731 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7732 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7733 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7735 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7736 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7737 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7739 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7740 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7741 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7742 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7743 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7744 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7745 instead of killing the process with assert().
7747 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7748 than Unicode encoding.
7750 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7751 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7752 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7753 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7755 77. Added process_log_path.
7757 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7758 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7760 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7761 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7763 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7764 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7765 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7767 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7768 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7769 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7770 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7771 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7774 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7775 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7778 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7779 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7780 they will be used during message reception.
7786 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.