1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
10 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
11 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
13 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
15 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
16 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
19 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
20 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
21 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
23 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
25 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
27 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
28 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
29 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
31 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
32 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
33 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
35 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
36 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
38 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
39 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
42 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
43 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
44 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
45 should both provide the file and set the option.
46 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
48 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
49 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
51 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
52 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
53 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
54 Authentication-Results: header.
56 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
57 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
58 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
59 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
61 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
62 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
63 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
64 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
65 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
66 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
67 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
69 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
70 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
71 copies while it is still usable.
73 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
74 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
75 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
77 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
78 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
80 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
81 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
82 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
83 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
85 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
86 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
87 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
90 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
91 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
92 - the pipe transport command
93 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
94 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
96 - paths used by single-key lookups
97 Previously this was permitted.
99 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
100 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
101 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
102 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
104 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
105 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
106 support larger malloc requests.
108 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
109 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
110 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
111 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
113 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
114 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
115 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
116 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
119 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
120 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
121 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
122 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
123 data being length-specified.
125 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
126 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
127 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
128 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
130 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
131 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
132 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
133 not being properly tracked.
135 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
136 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
137 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
138 minute could be seen.
140 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
141 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
142 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
144 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
145 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
147 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
148 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
151 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
153 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
154 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
156 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
157 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
158 filesystem as sufficient validation.
160 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
161 argument is supplied.
163 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
164 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
165 access under Exim's current working directory.
167 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
168 Previously no event was raised.
170 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
171 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
172 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
175 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
176 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
177 the size of the signature hash.
179 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
180 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
182 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
183 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
184 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
185 dropped between messages.
187 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
188 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
189 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
190 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
192 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
193 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
194 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
195 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
196 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
197 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
198 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
199 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
200 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
206 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
207 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
209 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
210 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
213 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
216 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
218 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
220 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
221 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
223 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
224 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
225 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
226 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
227 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
228 suitably configured).
230 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
231 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
233 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
234 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
237 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
238 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
240 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
241 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
242 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
243 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
246 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
247 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
248 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
250 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
253 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
254 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
256 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
257 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
258 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
259 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
262 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
263 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
264 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
265 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
268 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
269 shared (NFS) environment.
271 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
272 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
275 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
276 on some platforms for bit 31.
278 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
279 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
280 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
281 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
282 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
283 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
284 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
285 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
287 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
289 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
290 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
292 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
293 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
296 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
297 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
300 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
301 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
302 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
305 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
306 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
307 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
309 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
310 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
311 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
312 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
313 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
315 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
318 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
319 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
320 be requested on all coneections.
322 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
323 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
325 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
327 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
328 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
329 one for these; the option was ignored.
331 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
332 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
333 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
334 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
336 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
337 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
338 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
341 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
342 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
343 error ignored was made.
345 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
347 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
348 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
349 values, to catch one form of exploit.
351 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
352 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
353 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
355 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
356 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
359 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
360 them in our smtp response.
362 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
363 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
364 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
365 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
366 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
368 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
369 link count into consideration.
371 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
372 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
374 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
375 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
376 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
379 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
381 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
383 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
385 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
386 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
387 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
388 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
390 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
392 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
393 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
396 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
397 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
398 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
400 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
401 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
402 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
404 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
405 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
406 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
407 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
408 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
409 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
410 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
411 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
413 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
414 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
415 resulted in an indefinite loop.
417 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
418 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
419 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
425 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
426 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
428 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
429 non-signal-safe functions being used.
431 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
432 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
433 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
435 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
436 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
437 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
439 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
440 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
441 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
442 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
443 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
446 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
447 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
449 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
450 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
451 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
452 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
453 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
454 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
455 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
457 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
458 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
460 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
463 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
464 Previously this would segfault.
466 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
469 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
470 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
471 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
472 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
473 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
474 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
476 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
478 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
479 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
480 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
481 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
483 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
485 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
486 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
487 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
488 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
490 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
492 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
494 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
495 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
496 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
498 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
499 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
500 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
502 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
504 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
505 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
506 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
507 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
509 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
510 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
511 promised '?' replacement.
513 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
515 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
516 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
517 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
518 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
519 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
521 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
522 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
523 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
525 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
526 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
527 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
529 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
530 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
531 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
533 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
534 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
535 hope that is portable enough.
537 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
538 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
539 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
540 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
542 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
543 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
544 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
546 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
547 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
548 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
549 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
551 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
552 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
554 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
555 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
556 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
557 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
559 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
560 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
561 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
563 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
564 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
565 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
566 the previous G, M, k.
568 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
569 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
572 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
573 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
574 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
575 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
577 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
578 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
580 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
581 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
582 off past the nul-terimation.
584 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
585 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
586 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
587 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
588 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
590 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
592 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
593 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
594 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
597 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
598 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
600 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
601 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
602 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
604 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
605 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
606 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
608 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
609 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
615 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
616 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
617 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
618 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
619 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
620 be defined in redis_servers.
622 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
623 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
625 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
626 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
627 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
628 extant use locations.
630 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
631 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
633 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
634 Previously only the last row was returned.
636 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
637 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
638 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
639 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
642 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
643 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
644 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
645 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
646 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
647 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
648 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
649 Main pool for expansions.
650 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
651 active in the testsuite.
652 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
654 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
655 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
656 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
657 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
660 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
661 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
664 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
665 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
666 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
668 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
669 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
670 ClamAV interface method is removed.
672 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
673 rows affected is given instead).
675 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
676 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
678 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
679 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
680 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
681 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
682 for all multi-message initiating connections.
684 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
685 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
686 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
688 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
689 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
690 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
691 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
694 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
695 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
696 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
699 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
701 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
702 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
704 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
705 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
706 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
708 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
709 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
710 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
713 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
714 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
716 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
717 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
718 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
720 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
721 for the build is renamed.
723 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
724 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
725 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
727 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
728 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
729 result replacing the original.
731 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
732 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
733 and the resources needed to be freed.
735 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
737 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
740 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
741 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
742 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
743 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
745 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
746 length value. Previously this would segfault.
748 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
749 newer versions of the scanner.
751 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
752 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
753 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
754 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
755 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
756 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
757 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
759 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
760 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
761 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
762 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
763 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
764 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
765 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
766 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
767 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
768 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
770 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
771 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
773 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
775 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
776 allows proper process termination in container environments.
778 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
779 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
781 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
782 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
783 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
785 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
786 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
787 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
788 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
790 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
791 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
794 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
795 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
797 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
798 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
799 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
800 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
801 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
803 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
804 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
807 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
808 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
810 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
813 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
814 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
815 "bare" representation.
817 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
818 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
819 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
820 corrupted the output.
826 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
827 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
828 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
829 pairs of long lines into single ones.
831 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
832 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
834 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
835 This permits better logging.
837 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
838 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
839 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
840 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
841 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
842 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
844 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
845 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
848 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
849 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
850 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
852 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
853 than 255 are no longer allowed.
855 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
856 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
857 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
858 client, there is no benefit for these.
859 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
860 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
861 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
864 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
865 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
867 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
868 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
869 erroneously found still-pending ones.
871 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
872 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
874 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
875 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
876 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
877 signature and again for transmission.
879 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
880 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
881 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
883 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
884 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
885 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
886 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
887 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
888 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
889 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
891 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
892 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
893 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
894 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
896 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
897 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
898 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
899 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
900 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
901 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
904 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
905 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
906 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
907 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
910 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
911 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
912 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
913 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
916 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
917 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
920 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
921 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
922 banner-time rejection.
924 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
927 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
928 is the name of a transport.
931 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
933 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
934 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
936 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
937 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
938 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
941 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
942 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
943 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
944 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
946 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
947 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
948 initial verify call returned a defer.
950 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
951 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
953 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
954 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
956 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
957 if present. Previously it was ignored.
959 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
960 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
962 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
963 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
966 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
967 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
969 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
970 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
971 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
973 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
974 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
975 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
976 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
978 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
979 and confused the parent.
981 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
982 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
984 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
987 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
988 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
989 out-of-order delivery.
991 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
992 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
993 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
996 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
997 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1000 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1001 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1002 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1004 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1005 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1006 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1007 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1008 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1009 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1011 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1012 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1013 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1015 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1016 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1017 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1019 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1020 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1021 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1022 though a different problem.
1028 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1029 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1031 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1033 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1034 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1036 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1037 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1039 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1040 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1041 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1042 before acknowledging the chunk.
1044 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1045 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1046 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1048 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1049 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1050 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1053 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1054 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1055 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1057 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1058 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1060 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1061 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1062 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1063 body hash calculated value.
1065 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1066 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1067 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1069 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1071 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1072 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1074 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1075 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1076 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1078 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1079 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1080 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1081 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1082 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1083 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1085 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1086 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1087 past that check, despite the cost.
1089 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1090 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1091 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1093 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1094 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1095 TLS library to consume.
1097 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1099 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1101 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1102 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1103 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1104 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1105 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1106 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1107 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1109 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1111 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1113 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1114 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1115 should be warning-free.
1117 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1119 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1120 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1122 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1123 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1124 general solution here.
1126 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1127 already-broken messages in the queue.
1129 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1131 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1137 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1138 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1140 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1141 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1142 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1144 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1145 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1146 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1147 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1148 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1149 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1150 if one fails this test.
1151 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1152 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1154 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1155 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1157 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1158 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1160 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1161 in rewrites and routers.
1163 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1164 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1166 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1167 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1169 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1171 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1174 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1175 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1176 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1177 connection after a verify cache hit.
1178 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1180 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1181 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1183 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1184 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1185 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1186 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1187 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1189 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1190 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1192 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1193 Previously they were not counted.
1195 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1196 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1197 that needed the lookup.
1199 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1200 distinguished as "(=".
1202 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1203 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1205 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1207 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1208 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1210 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1211 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1213 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1214 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1217 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1218 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1219 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1220 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1222 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1224 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1225 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1226 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1228 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1229 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1230 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1233 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1234 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1235 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1238 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1239 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1240 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1242 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1243 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1246 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1248 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1249 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1251 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1252 are not in the system include path.
1254 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1255 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1256 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1257 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1259 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1260 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1261 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1263 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1265 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1266 an incoming connection.
1268 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1271 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1272 fallback to "prime256v1".
1274 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1275 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1281 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1282 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1283 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1284 client dropping the TLS connection.
1286 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1287 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1289 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1290 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1291 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1292 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1295 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1296 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1297 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1298 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1299 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1300 check on the next write.
1302 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1303 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1304 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1305 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1306 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1308 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1309 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1311 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1312 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1313 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1315 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1316 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1317 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1318 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1320 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1321 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1323 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1324 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1326 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1327 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1328 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1331 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1333 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1335 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1337 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1338 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1340 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1341 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1343 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1345 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1346 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1348 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1350 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1351 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1353 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1355 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1356 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1357 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1358 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1359 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1360 they will retry in-clear.
1361 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1362 at installation time.
1364 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1365 with the $config_file variable.
1367 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1368 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1369 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1370 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1371 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1373 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1374 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1375 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1376 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1377 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1379 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1381 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1382 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1383 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1384 list order is no longer honoured.
1386 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1387 for DKIM processing.
1389 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1390 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1392 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1393 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1394 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1395 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1397 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1398 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1400 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1401 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1403 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1404 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1406 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1408 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1409 cached by the daemon.
1411 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1412 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1414 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1415 keys are given for lookup.
1417 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1418 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1419 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1420 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1422 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1423 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1424 server-side so match that on older versions.
1426 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1427 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1428 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1430 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1431 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1433 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1434 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1435 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1436 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1437 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1438 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1439 initial truncated version.
1441 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1443 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1445 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1446 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1448 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1450 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1452 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1453 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1456 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1457 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1460 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1461 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1463 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1464 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1467 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1468 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1469 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1471 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1472 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1473 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1474 extraction. Accept either.
1480 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1483 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1485 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1488 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1489 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1490 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1491 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1493 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1494 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1495 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1497 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1498 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1499 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1502 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1505 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1506 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1507 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1508 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1509 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1511 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1512 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1513 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1515 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1517 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1518 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1520 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1521 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1523 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1526 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1527 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1529 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1530 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1531 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1533 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1534 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1535 specify a port-range.
1537 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1538 timeout value per server.
1540 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1541 now have the list separator specified.
1543 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1546 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1549 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1551 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1552 rather than the verbs used.
1554 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1555 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1557 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1559 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1560 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1562 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1563 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1565 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1566 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1568 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1570 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1572 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1573 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1574 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1575 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1577 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1579 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1580 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1582 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1583 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1585 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1587 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1589 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1591 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1592 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1594 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1595 added for tls authenticator.
1597 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1603 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1604 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1605 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1606 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1607 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1608 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1609 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1611 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1612 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1613 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1614 function when detected.
1616 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1617 cause callback expansion.
1619 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1620 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1621 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1622 instead of bool when processing it.
1624 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1625 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1627 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1629 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1631 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1633 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1634 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1636 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1637 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1638 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1639 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1640 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1641 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1643 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1644 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1647 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1648 version 3.3.6 or later.
1650 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1651 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1652 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1653 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1654 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1655 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1658 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1659 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1661 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1662 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1663 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1666 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1667 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1668 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1670 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1671 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1673 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1674 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1677 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1679 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1680 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1682 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1683 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1686 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1688 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1691 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1692 output list separator was used.
1697 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1698 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1701 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1702 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1704 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1706 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1707 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1713 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1715 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1716 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1717 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1718 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1719 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1720 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1722 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1723 utilities have not been installed.
1725 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1726 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1728 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1729 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1731 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1732 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1733 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1734 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1736 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1738 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1739 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1741 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1744 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1746 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1747 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1748 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1750 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1751 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1752 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1753 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1754 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1755 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1757 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1759 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1760 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1762 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1765 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1767 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1769 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1770 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1772 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1773 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1775 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1777 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1779 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1780 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1782 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1783 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1784 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1786 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1787 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1788 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1791 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1793 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1794 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1797 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1798 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1801 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1802 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1804 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1805 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1807 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1809 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1810 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1811 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1813 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1814 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1816 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1817 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1820 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1821 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1822 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1824 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1826 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1827 Christian Aistleitner.
1829 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1831 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1832 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1834 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1835 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1837 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1838 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1840 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1841 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1843 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1844 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1846 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1847 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1848 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1850 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1852 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1853 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1856 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1858 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1859 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1866 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1868 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1869 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1871 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1874 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1875 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1878 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1880 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1881 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1882 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1883 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1884 using channel bindings instead).
1886 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1887 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1888 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1889 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1890 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1893 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1895 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1897 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1898 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1900 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1901 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1902 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1904 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1906 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1908 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1909 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1911 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1913 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1915 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1917 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1918 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1920 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1922 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1923 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1926 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1927 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1929 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1930 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1933 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1935 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1937 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1938 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1940 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1943 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1944 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1946 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1947 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1949 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1951 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1953 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1956 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1959 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1961 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1962 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1963 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1964 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1966 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1968 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1969 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1970 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1971 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1974 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1975 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1976 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1978 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1979 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1980 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1981 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1983 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1984 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1985 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1986 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1987 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1988 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1989 delivery, as in LMTP.
1991 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1992 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1994 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1996 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2000 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2001 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2002 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2003 username as equal to the username.
2005 This change corrects that bug.
2007 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2008 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2009 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2011 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2013 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2014 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2015 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2016 NULL dereference and crash.
2018 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2020 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2021 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2022 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2024 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2026 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2027 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2028 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2029 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2030 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2031 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2032 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2033 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2034 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2035 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2036 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2038 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2039 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2041 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2042 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2045 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2046 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2047 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2048 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2049 an empty string is now equivalent.
2051 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2052 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2053 not performing validation itself.
2055 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2056 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2058 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2061 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2063 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2064 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2065 other false fix of the same issue.
2066 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2069 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2070 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2072 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2073 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2074 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2076 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2077 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2078 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2080 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2082 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2084 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2085 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2087 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2090 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2091 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2092 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2093 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2094 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2096 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2097 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2099 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2100 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2103 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2104 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2105 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2106 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2108 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2110 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2111 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2112 from multiple comments on this bug.
2114 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2116 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2117 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2120 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2121 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2123 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2124 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2130 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2132 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2138 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2139 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2140 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2142 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2144 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2147 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2149 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2151 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2153 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2154 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2156 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2157 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2159 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2160 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2162 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2163 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2164 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2166 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2168 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2169 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2171 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2173 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2175 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2176 non-compliant senders.
2177 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2179 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2180 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2181 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2183 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2184 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2185 in spool file corruption.
2187 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2188 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2189 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2192 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2193 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2194 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2196 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2197 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2199 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2201 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2203 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2205 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2206 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2207 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2209 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2210 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2211 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2212 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2214 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2215 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2217 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2218 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2219 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2220 resolver implementation change.
2222 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2223 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2225 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2227 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2229 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2230 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2232 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2233 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2235 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2236 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2238 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2239 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2240 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2241 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2242 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2244 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2246 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2247 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2248 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2250 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2252 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2253 read-only, out of scope).
2254 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2256 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2257 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2258 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2259 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2261 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2263 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2264 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2265 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2266 real issues in debug logging.
2268 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2269 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2271 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2272 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2273 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2275 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2276 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2277 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2280 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2281 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2283 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2284 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2285 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2286 needs to override this, it can.
2288 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2289 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2290 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2292 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2293 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2294 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2295 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2297 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2303 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2304 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2306 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2308 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2311 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2312 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2314 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2315 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2316 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2318 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2319 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2320 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2321 not safe for signals.
2323 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2324 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2325 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2326 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2329 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2331 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2332 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2333 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2334 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2335 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2337 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2338 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2339 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2340 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2341 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2342 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2344 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2345 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2346 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2347 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2349 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2350 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2351 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2352 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2354 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2355 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2356 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2357 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2358 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2359 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2360 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2361 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2362 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2364 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2365 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2366 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2367 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2369 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2370 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2371 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2372 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2373 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2374 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2375 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2376 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2377 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2378 details in the main documentation.
2380 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2382 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2384 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2385 repository when doing development or release builds.
2387 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2388 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2390 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2391 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2394 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2396 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2397 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2399 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2400 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2402 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2403 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2405 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2406 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2408 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2409 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2411 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2413 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2416 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2417 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2418 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2420 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2422 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2424 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2425 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2431 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2433 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2434 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2436 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2438 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2440 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2443 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2444 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2446 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2447 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2449 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2450 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2452 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2455 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2456 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2458 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2459 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2460 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2461 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2463 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2464 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2470 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2473 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2474 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2475 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2477 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2478 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2480 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2481 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2482 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2484 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2485 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2487 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2488 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2490 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2491 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2493 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2494 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2496 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2497 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2499 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2502 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2503 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2505 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2506 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2508 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2509 SQL string expansion failure details.
2510 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2512 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2513 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2515 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2516 extern declarations in function scope.
2517 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2519 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2520 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2521 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2524 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2525 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2527 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2528 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2530 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2531 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2533 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2534 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2536 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2537 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2540 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2542 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2544 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2545 Patch by Simon Arlott
2547 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2548 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2554 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2555 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2557 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2558 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2560 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2562 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2563 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2564 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2566 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2567 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2568 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2570 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2571 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2572 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2573 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2575 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2576 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2577 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2578 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2580 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2581 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2582 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2585 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2588 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2589 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2590 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2591 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2592 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2598 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2599 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2600 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2602 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2603 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2605 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2607 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2609 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2611 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2613 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2615 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2616 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2617 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2618 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2620 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2621 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2622 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2623 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2624 more caution in buffer sizes.
2626 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2628 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2630 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2632 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2634 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2636 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2638 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2640 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2641 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2642 ignore trailing whitespace.
2644 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2646 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2649 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2650 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2652 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2653 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2654 Notification from John Horne.
2656 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2659 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2660 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2663 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2666 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2667 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2668 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2670 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2671 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2672 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2675 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2676 option (effectively making it always true).
2678 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2679 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2681 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2682 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2684 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2685 run-time user, instead of root.
2687 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2688 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2690 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2691 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2694 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2695 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2696 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2698 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2700 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2706 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2707 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2710 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2711 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2714 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2715 Patch from Alain Williams
2717 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2719 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2720 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2722 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2723 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2725 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2727 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2729 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2730 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2732 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2734 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2736 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2737 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2738 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2740 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2741 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2743 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2744 Patch by Simon Arlott
2746 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2747 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2753 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2755 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2757 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2759 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2761 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2767 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2768 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2770 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2771 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2774 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2775 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2776 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2778 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2779 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2781 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2782 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2783 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2784 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2786 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2787 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2788 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2790 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2792 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2794 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2795 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2797 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2799 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2800 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2801 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2802 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2804 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2805 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2807 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2809 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2811 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2812 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2814 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2815 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2817 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2818 that they are available at delivery time.
2820 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2822 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2823 incoming_port log selectors.
2825 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2826 setting expands to an empty string.
2828 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2829 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2831 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2832 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2834 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2835 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2837 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2838 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2840 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2841 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2843 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2844 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2846 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2848 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2849 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2851 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2852 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2854 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2856 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2857 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2859 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2861 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2863 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2866 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2867 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2869 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2870 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2872 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2873 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2875 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2876 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2878 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2879 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2881 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2882 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2884 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2885 plus update to original patch.
2887 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2889 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2890 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2892 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2894 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2896 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2898 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2900 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2901 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2903 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2904 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2906 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2907 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2909 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2910 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2912 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2914 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2916 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2918 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2924 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2925 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2926 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2928 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2929 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2930 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2931 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2932 build errors in sieve.c.
2934 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2935 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2936 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2938 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2940 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2942 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2944 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2950 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2952 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2953 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2954 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2955 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2956 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2957 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2958 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2959 for iplsearch lookups.
2961 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2962 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2963 previously such lookups could never work.
2965 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2966 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2967 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2969 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2972 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2973 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2974 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2975 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2976 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2977 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2979 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2980 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2982 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2983 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2984 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2985 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2986 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2987 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2989 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2992 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2994 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2995 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2998 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2999 by clients under certain conditions.
3001 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3002 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3004 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3006 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3007 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3009 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3011 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3013 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3015 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3016 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3018 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3020 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3021 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3023 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3025 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3027 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3028 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3029 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3030 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3032 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3033 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3034 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3036 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3037 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3039 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3041 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3043 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3045 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3046 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3047 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3053 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3054 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3057 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3058 issue a MAIL command.
3060 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3062 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3064 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3065 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3066 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3067 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3068 item. This has been fixed.
3070 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3071 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3073 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3074 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3076 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3077 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3078 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3080 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3082 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3083 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3084 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3085 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3086 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3088 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3089 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3090 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3092 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3093 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3094 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3095 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3097 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3099 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3101 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3102 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3103 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3104 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3105 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3107 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3109 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3110 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3111 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3114 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3116 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3118 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3120 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3122 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3124 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3125 no_callout_flush is set.
3127 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3128 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3129 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3132 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3134 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3135 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3136 other ACL rejections are.
3138 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3139 with slight modification.
3141 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3142 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3144 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3145 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3148 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3149 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3151 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3153 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3154 expansion side effects.
3156 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3157 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3158 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3161 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3162 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3163 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3165 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3166 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3167 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3168 were accidentally chopped off.
3170 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3171 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3172 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3173 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3174 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3175 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3176 pipelining has not been advertised.
3178 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3180 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3181 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3182 This has been fixed.
3184 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3185 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3186 reported on Solaris.
3188 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3189 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3190 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3191 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3192 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3193 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3194 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3196 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3199 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3201 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3203 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3204 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3205 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3206 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3207 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3208 criteria to be more general.
3210 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3211 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3212 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3213 host_all_ignored option.
3215 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3216 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3217 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3218 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3219 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3220 is what is supposed to happen).
3222 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3223 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3224 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3225 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3226 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3229 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3230 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3231 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3232 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3233 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3234 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3237 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3239 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3240 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3242 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3243 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3245 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3247 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3249 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3250 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3251 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3252 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3253 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3254 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3255 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3256 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3257 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3258 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3259 least in a lot of common cases.
3261 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3262 advertised in response to EHLO.
3268 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3269 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3271 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3272 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3274 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3275 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3276 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3278 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3279 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3280 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3281 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3282 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3288 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3289 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3292 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3293 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3294 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3296 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3297 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3298 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3299 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3300 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3301 rather than extend the field.
3307 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3308 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3309 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3310 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3313 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3314 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3315 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3317 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3318 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3319 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3321 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3322 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3323 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3326 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3327 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3328 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3329 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3330 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3331 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3332 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3333 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3334 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3335 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3336 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3338 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3341 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3342 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3343 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3344 ignores EPIPE as well.
3346 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3347 (quoted-printable decoding).
3349 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3350 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3352 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3354 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3356 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3358 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3359 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3361 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3364 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3365 miscellaneous code fixes
3367 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3370 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3371 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3372 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3373 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3374 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3375 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3376 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3377 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3379 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3380 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3381 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3382 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3384 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3385 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3386 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3387 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3388 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3389 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3390 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3391 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3392 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3394 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3397 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3398 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3399 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3400 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3401 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3402 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3403 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3404 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3406 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3407 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3410 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3411 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3412 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3413 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3414 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3415 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3416 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3417 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3418 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3419 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3420 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3421 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3422 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3424 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3425 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3426 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3427 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3428 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3429 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3430 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3432 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3433 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3434 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3435 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3436 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3437 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3438 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3439 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3440 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3441 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3443 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3444 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3445 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3446 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3447 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3449 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3450 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3451 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3452 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3453 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3454 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3455 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3457 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3458 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3459 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3460 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3461 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3462 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3465 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3466 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3467 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3470 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3471 if any retry times were supplied.
3473 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3474 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3475 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3477 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3479 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3481 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3482 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3483 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3484 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3485 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3486 before) are ignored.
3488 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3489 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3491 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3492 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3493 committing the later change.]
3495 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3496 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3497 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3498 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3499 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3500 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3501 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3502 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3503 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3505 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3506 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3507 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3508 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3509 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3510 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3511 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3512 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3513 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3515 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3516 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3517 hammering the server.
3519 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3520 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3522 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3524 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3525 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3526 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3528 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3529 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3530 one case where this was not true.
3532 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3533 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3534 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3535 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3538 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3539 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3540 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3541 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3542 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3543 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3544 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3545 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3546 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3549 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3550 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3551 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3552 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3554 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3555 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3557 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3558 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3559 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3561 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3563 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3565 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3567 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3568 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3569 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3570 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3572 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3573 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3575 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3576 be meaningful with "accept".
3578 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3579 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3581 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3582 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3583 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3585 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3586 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3587 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3588 there is data to show.
3589 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3591 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3592 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3593 as well as the number of messages.
3595 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3596 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3597 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3599 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3600 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3601 have a flag are now skipped.
3603 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3604 Added the -emptyok flag.
3606 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3607 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3609 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3610 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3611 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3613 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3616 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3617 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3619 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3621 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3622 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3624 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3626 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3627 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3628 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3629 contravention of the specifications.
3631 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3632 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3633 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3635 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3636 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3637 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3639 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3641 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3642 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3643 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3644 some point in the past.
3646 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3647 transport during callout processing was broken.
3649 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3650 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3652 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3653 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3655 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3656 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3658 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3664 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3665 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3667 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3668 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3669 there is data to show.
3670 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3672 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3673 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3675 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3676 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3678 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3679 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3681 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3682 submissions from trusted users.
3684 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3685 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3687 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3688 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3689 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3690 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3691 there is now a framework to start from.
3693 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3694 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3695 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3697 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3699 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3701 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3703 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3704 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3705 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3707 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3710 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3711 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3712 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3714 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3715 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3716 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3719 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3720 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3721 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3722 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3723 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3725 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3726 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3728 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3730 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3731 operations in malware.c.
3733 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3736 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3737 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3738 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3741 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3742 statements to "add_header".
3744 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3745 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3747 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3748 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3751 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3755 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3756 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3757 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3760 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3761 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3763 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3764 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3766 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3767 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3768 any possible encoding problems.
3770 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3771 but not after initializing Perl.
3773 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3774 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3775 apparently, which is not desirable.
3777 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3780 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3783 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3785 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3786 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3787 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3788 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3790 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3791 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3792 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3794 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3795 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3796 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3799 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3800 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3801 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3802 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3803 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3809 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3810 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3812 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3815 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3816 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3817 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3818 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3819 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3820 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3821 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3822 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3825 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3827 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3828 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3829 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3831 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3832 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3833 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3836 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3837 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3839 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3840 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3841 option (which defaults to 0600).
3843 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3845 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3846 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3847 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3848 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3849 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3850 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3851 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3853 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3859 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3860 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3861 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3862 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3863 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3864 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3867 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3868 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3870 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3872 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3873 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3874 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3875 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3876 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3879 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3880 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3882 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3883 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3884 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3885 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3886 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3888 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3889 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3890 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3891 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3893 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3894 be the same on different OS.
3896 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3899 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3900 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3902 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3905 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3906 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3907 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3908 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3909 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3910 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3913 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3914 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3915 when Exim was called.
3917 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3918 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3920 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3921 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3922 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3923 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3925 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3926 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3927 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3928 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3931 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3932 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3933 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3935 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3936 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3937 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3939 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3942 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3943 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3944 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3945 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3946 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3947 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3948 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3949 values from the SRV records were lost.
3951 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3952 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3953 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3955 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3956 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3957 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3959 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3960 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3961 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3962 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3963 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3964 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3965 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3966 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3967 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3968 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3970 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3971 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3972 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3974 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3975 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3977 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3978 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3979 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3980 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3983 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3984 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3985 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3987 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3988 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3989 PH/23 above applies.
3991 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3992 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3993 (for which there is an explicit test).
3995 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3997 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3998 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3999 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4000 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4001 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4003 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4004 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4005 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4006 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4008 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4009 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4010 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4012 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4014 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4016 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4017 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4018 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4020 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4021 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4022 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4023 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4024 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4026 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4027 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4028 the message gets confusing).
4030 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4031 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4032 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4033 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4035 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4036 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4037 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4038 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4041 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4042 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4043 the different processes.
4045 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4047 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4049 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4050 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4052 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4053 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4055 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4056 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4057 messages matching specified criteria.
4059 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4061 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4062 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4064 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4065 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4066 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4067 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4068 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4069 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4070 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4071 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4072 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4073 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4075 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4076 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4077 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4079 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4081 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4082 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4083 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4084 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4085 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4086 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4087 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4090 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4091 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4093 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4095 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4097 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4099 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4100 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4101 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4102 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4103 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4104 size of the count of files.
4106 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4108 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4111 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4112 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4113 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4114 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4116 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4117 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4118 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4120 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4121 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4122 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4123 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4124 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4126 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4127 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4129 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4130 will now be deprecated.
4132 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4134 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4135 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4136 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4138 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4139 with very large, slow to parse queues
4141 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4143 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4145 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4146 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4147 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4150 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4151 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4152 Sieve code now uses this.
4154 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4155 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4157 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4158 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4160 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4162 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4163 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4164 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4165 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4166 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4168 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4169 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4170 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4171 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4173 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4175 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4177 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4178 is preferred over IPv4.
4180 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4181 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4182 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4183 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4184 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4185 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4186 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4188 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4189 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4190 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4192 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4194 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4195 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4196 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4197 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4198 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4199 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4200 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4201 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4202 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4203 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4204 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4206 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4207 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4208 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4214 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4216 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4217 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4219 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4220 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4221 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4223 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4225 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4228 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4231 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4232 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4233 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4236 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4237 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4239 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4240 inside the third argument.
4242 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4243 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4246 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4247 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4249 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4250 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4252 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4254 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4255 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4258 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4260 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4261 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4262 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4263 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4264 identical. For example:
4266 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4268 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4269 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4270 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4272 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4273 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4274 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4275 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4277 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4278 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4279 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4282 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4284 o fixes some comments
4285 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4286 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4287 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4288 and documents the missing references header update
4292 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4293 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4296 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4297 Electronic Mail") by including:
4299 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4301 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4302 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4303 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4304 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4305 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4307 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4309 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4311 The auto-replied keyword:
4313 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4314 message by an automatic process,
4316 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4318 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4319 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4321 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4322 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4325 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4326 to the default Received: header definition.
4328 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4330 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4331 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4332 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4334 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4335 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4336 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4338 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4339 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4340 and treats the condition as false.
4342 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4344 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4345 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4346 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4347 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4348 not changing the active code.
4350 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4351 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4353 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4354 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4356 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4359 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4360 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4361 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4362 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4363 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4364 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4365 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4366 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4367 the text comparison.
4369 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4370 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4371 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4372 The same fix has been applied.
4378 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4379 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4382 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4383 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4385 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4387 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4388 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4389 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4390 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4391 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4393 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4394 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4395 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4396 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4399 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4407 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4408 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4410 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4412 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4414 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4415 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4416 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4418 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4419 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4420 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4422 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4423 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4426 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4427 ${stat: expansion item.
4429 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4430 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4432 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4433 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4436 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4438 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4441 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4442 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4444 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4446 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4447 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4448 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4449 the end of the subprocess.
4451 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4452 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4453 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4454 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4455 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4457 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4459 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4461 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4462 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4464 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4466 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4468 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4469 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4472 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4474 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4475 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4476 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4478 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4479 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4481 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4482 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4484 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4485 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4487 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4488 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4490 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4491 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4492 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4493 contributed by a Radius user.
4495 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4496 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4498 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4499 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4501 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4504 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4505 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4508 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4509 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4510 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4511 header lines when this was not necessary.
4513 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4515 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4516 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4517 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4520 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4523 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4524 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4525 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4526 return code was incorrect.
4528 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4530 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4532 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4534 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4536 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4537 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4538 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4539 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4540 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4543 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4545 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4546 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4547 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4548 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4549 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4550 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4551 which is clearly wrong.
4553 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4555 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4556 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4557 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4560 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4561 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4563 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4565 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4566 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4568 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4569 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4571 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4572 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4574 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4575 recipients, not senders.
4577 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4578 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4580 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4582 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4584 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4585 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4586 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4587 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4589 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4591 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4592 clock is set back in time.
4594 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4595 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4597 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4598 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4600 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4601 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4604 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4605 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4608 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4611 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4613 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4614 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4615 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4617 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4618 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4619 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4620 helo verification defer as a failure.
4622 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4623 actual error message.
4629 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4631 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4632 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4633 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4634 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4636 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4638 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4639 can still be requested.
4641 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4642 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4643 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4644 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4646 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4647 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4648 circumstances, but probably never did.
4650 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4651 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4652 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4655 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4657 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4658 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4660 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4662 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4664 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4665 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4666 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4667 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4668 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4669 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4671 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4672 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4673 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4674 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4675 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4676 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4678 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4679 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4681 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4682 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4684 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4685 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4687 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4689 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4691 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4693 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4695 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4697 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4699 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4701 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4702 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4703 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4705 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4706 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4707 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4708 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4710 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4711 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4712 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4714 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4715 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4716 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4717 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4719 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4720 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4723 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4724 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4725 should work with maildirs and everything.
4727 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4728 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4730 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4733 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4734 function for BDB 4.3.
4736 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4738 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4739 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4742 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4743 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4744 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4745 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4746 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4747 formatting function string_vformat().
4749 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4750 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4751 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4752 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4753 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4754 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4755 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4756 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4758 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4759 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4762 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4763 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4765 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4766 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4767 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4768 test. It is now used for both.
4770 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4771 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4772 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4773 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4774 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4775 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4777 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4778 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4779 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4782 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4783 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4784 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4786 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4787 experimental DomainKeys support:
4789 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4790 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4791 the control was given.
4793 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4795 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4797 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4799 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4800 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4801 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4804 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4805 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4806 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4807 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4808 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4809 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4812 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4813 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4814 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4815 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4816 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4817 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4819 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4820 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4821 do -d+all out of habit.
4823 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4824 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4827 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4828 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4829 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4830 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4831 record types that Exim uses.
4833 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4834 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4835 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4836 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4837 non-existent file that was broken.
4839 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4840 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4842 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4843 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4844 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4846 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4848 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4849 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4850 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4851 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4852 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4855 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4856 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4857 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4858 at a slight CPU cost.
4860 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4861 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4863 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4866 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4868 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4869 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4875 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4876 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4878 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4880 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4882 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4883 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4885 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4886 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4887 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4888 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4889 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4890 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4893 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4894 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4895 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4896 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4899 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4900 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4901 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4902 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4903 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4904 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4905 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4908 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4909 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4911 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4912 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4913 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4914 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4915 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4916 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4918 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4919 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4920 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4921 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4923 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4926 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4927 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4929 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4930 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4931 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4932 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4935 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4937 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4938 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4940 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4941 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4942 to what was transported.)
4944 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4946 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4947 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4948 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4949 spamd_address settings.
4951 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4952 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4953 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4954 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4955 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4957 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4959 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4960 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4961 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4962 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4963 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4965 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4966 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4968 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4969 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4970 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4971 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4972 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4973 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4974 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4977 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4978 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4979 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4980 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4981 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4982 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4983 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4986 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4988 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4989 driver and ACL definitions.
4991 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4992 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4994 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4995 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4996 understands it better than I do:
4998 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4999 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5001 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5002 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5003 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5004 => three warnings about OTP not working
5005 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5007 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5008 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5009 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5010 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5012 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5013 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5015 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5016 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5017 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5019 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5020 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5023 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5024 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5027 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5028 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5029 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5031 warn !verify = sender
5032 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5034 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5035 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5037 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5039 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5040 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5042 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5043 nomenclature these days.)
5045 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5046 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5048 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5049 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5050 . First host does not offer TLS;
5051 . First host accepts first address;
5052 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5053 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5054 . Second host accepts second address.
5055 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5056 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5059 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5060 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5061 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5062 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5063 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5065 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5066 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5068 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5069 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5071 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5072 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5073 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5075 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5076 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5079 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5081 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5082 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5083 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5084 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5085 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5086 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5087 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5089 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5090 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5091 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5092 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5093 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5095 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5096 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5099 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5100 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5101 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5102 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5103 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5104 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5106 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5108 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5109 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5110 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5111 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5112 printable escape sequences.
5114 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5115 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5118 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5119 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5122 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5123 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5124 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5125 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5126 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5128 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5129 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5130 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5132 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5134 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5135 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5138 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5139 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5140 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5141 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5142 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5143 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5144 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5145 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5146 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5149 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5150 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5151 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5152 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5156 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5157 ----------------------------------------
5159 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5160 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5161 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5162 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5163 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5164 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5167 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5168 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5169 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5170 historical information.
5176 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5178 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5179 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5181 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5182 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5185 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5186 filter fails to execute.
5188 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5189 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5190 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5191 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5192 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5194 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5196 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5197 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5198 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5199 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5201 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5202 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5203 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5204 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5205 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5207 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5209 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5211 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5212 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5213 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5214 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5216 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5217 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5218 sender verification.
5220 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5221 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5223 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5225 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5228 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5229 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5231 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5232 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5234 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5235 information about exactly what failed.
5237 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5239 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5240 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5241 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5243 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5244 It is now set to "smtps".
5246 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5247 ignore_target_hosts.
5249 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5250 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5251 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5252 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5255 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5256 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5257 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5259 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5260 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5261 wake it up if nothing else does.
5263 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5264 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5265 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5268 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5269 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5271 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5273 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5274 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5275 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5276 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5277 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5278 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5279 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5280 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5282 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5283 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5284 than one IP address.
5286 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5287 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5288 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5289 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5291 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5292 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5293 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5294 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5295 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5298 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5299 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5300 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5301 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5303 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5304 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5307 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5308 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5309 $sender_host_address.
5311 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5312 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5313 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5314 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5315 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5318 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5320 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5321 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5323 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5324 just the host names, not the priorities.
5326 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5327 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5328 controlled by a keyword.
5330 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5331 multiple records are returned.
5333 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5334 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5337 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5339 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5340 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5342 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5343 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5344 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5346 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5348 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5350 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5352 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5353 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5354 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5355 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5356 because the tests only now provoked it.
5358 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5359 (this can affect the format of dates).
5361 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5362 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5363 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5364 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5366 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5368 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5369 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5370 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5371 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5373 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5374 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5375 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5377 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5380 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5381 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5382 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5383 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5384 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5385 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5388 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5389 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5390 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5393 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5394 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5395 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5397 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5398 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5399 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5400 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5401 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5402 so I produce this patch..."
5404 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5405 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5408 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5409 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5410 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5411 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5414 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5416 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5417 long debug lines gets shown.
5419 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5420 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5422 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5424 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5425 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5426 of $primary_hostname.
5428 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5429 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5430 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5431 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5432 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5433 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5434 by change 4.50/55 above.
5436 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5437 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5438 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5439 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5440 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5441 running as the user.
5444 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5445 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5446 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5449 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5450 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5452 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5453 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5454 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5455 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5456 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5458 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5459 This has been fixed.
5461 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5462 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5463 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5464 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5467 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5469 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5470 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5471 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5472 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5474 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5475 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5477 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5478 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5479 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5481 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5482 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5483 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5486 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5487 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5488 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5490 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5491 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5492 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5493 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5495 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5496 during host lookups.
5498 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5499 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5501 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5503 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5504 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5505 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5506 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5507 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5510 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5511 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5513 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5514 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5515 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5517 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5519 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5520 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5521 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5522 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5523 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5524 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5527 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5528 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5529 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5530 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5531 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5533 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5536 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5538 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5539 "vacation" handling.
5541 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5542 OS variants using glibc.
5544 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5547 ----------------------------------------------------
5548 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5549 ----------------------------------------------------
5555 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5556 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5559 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5560 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5563 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5564 filter fails to execute.
5566 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5567 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5568 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5569 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5570 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5572 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5573 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5574 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5575 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5577 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5578 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5579 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5580 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5581 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5583 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5585 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5586 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5587 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5588 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5590 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5591 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5592 sender verification.
5594 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5595 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5597 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5598 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5600 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5601 ignore_target_hosts.
5603 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5604 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5605 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5606 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5609 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5610 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5611 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5613 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5614 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5615 wake it up if nothing else does.
5617 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5618 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5619 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5622 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5623 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5625 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5627 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5628 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5631 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5632 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5635 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5636 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5637 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5638 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5639 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5642 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5643 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5646 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5647 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5648 $sender_host_address.
5650 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5652 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5653 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5654 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5656 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5659 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5660 (this can affect the format of dates).
5662 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5663 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5664 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5665 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5667 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5668 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5669 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5671 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5672 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5673 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5674 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5676 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5677 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5678 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5680 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5683 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5684 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5685 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5686 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5687 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5688 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5691 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5692 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5693 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5694 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5697 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5698 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5699 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5700 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5701 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5702 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5703 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5705 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5706 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5707 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5708 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5709 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5710 running as the user.
5713 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5714 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5715 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5718 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5719 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5720 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5721 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5722 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5724 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5725 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5726 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5727 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5730 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5731 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5732 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5733 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5734 because the tests only now provoked it.
5740 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5741 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5742 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5743 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5744 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5745 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5746 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5748 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5749 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5752 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5754 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5756 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5757 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5760 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5761 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5762 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5763 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5764 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5766 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5767 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5769 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5771 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5773 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5776 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5777 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5779 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5780 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5781 affecting debugging statements).
5783 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5785 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5786 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5787 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5788 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5789 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5790 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5791 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5792 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5793 after the received time, and all would be well.
5795 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5796 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5797 condition in an expansion string.
5799 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5801 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5802 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5803 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5804 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5805 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5806 job under whatever limits there are.
5808 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5810 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5813 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5814 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5815 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5816 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5819 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5820 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5821 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5822 binary data in such strings.
5824 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5826 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5827 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5828 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5829 failure, which is pointless.
5831 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5833 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5835 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5836 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5837 Sender: header lines.
5839 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5840 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5841 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5843 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5844 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5845 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5846 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5847 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5850 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5851 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5852 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5853 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5854 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5856 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5857 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5858 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5861 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5862 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5864 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5865 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5867 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5869 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5871 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5873 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5876 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5878 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5880 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5881 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5882 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5883 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5885 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5886 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5892 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5893 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5894 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5896 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5897 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5898 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5899 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5900 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5901 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5903 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5904 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5905 verification failure".
5907 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5908 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5909 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5910 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5912 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5913 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5914 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5915 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5916 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5917 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5918 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5919 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5920 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5921 treated as a timeout.
5923 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5924 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5925 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5926 not set for Exim filters).
5928 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5929 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5930 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5932 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5934 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5935 try to make them clearer.
5937 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5938 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5940 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5942 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5944 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5945 only the Cygwin environment.
5947 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5948 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5949 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5950 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5951 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5953 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5954 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5955 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5956 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5957 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5958 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5959 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5961 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5962 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5964 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5966 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5967 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5968 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5970 To: susanne@some.where
5972 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5973 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5974 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5975 of addresses in From: header lines).
5977 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5978 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5979 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5981 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5982 treated as non-personal.
5984 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5985 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5987 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5989 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5991 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5992 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5993 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5995 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5996 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5998 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5999 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6000 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6001 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6002 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6003 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6005 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6006 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6007 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6008 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6009 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6010 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6011 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6012 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6014 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6016 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6017 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6019 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6020 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6021 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6023 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6024 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6026 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6027 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6028 rather than long int.
6030 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6032 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6038 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6039 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6040 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6041 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6042 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6043 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6049 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6050 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6052 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6053 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6054 socklen_t is defined.
6056 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6059 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6062 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6063 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6064 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6065 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6066 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6068 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6069 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6070 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6071 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6073 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6074 of flapping under certain conditions.
6076 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6077 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6078 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6080 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6082 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6084 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6085 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6086 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6087 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6089 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6090 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6091 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6092 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6093 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6094 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6095 preserved with the message after it was received.
6097 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6098 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6099 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6100 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6101 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6102 test suite worked just fine.
6104 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6105 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6106 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6108 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6109 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6112 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6113 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6114 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6115 does not fully solve it.
6117 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6118 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6119 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6120 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6121 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6123 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6124 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6125 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6127 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6128 string, for example:
6130 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6132 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6133 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6134 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6135 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6136 the routers could not see them.
6138 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6139 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6141 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6142 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6145 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6146 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6147 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6148 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6149 that needed quoting.
6151 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6152 was not being matched caselessly.
6154 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6157 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6158 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6159 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6160 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6161 when use_sender is false.
6163 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6165 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6167 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6169 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6170 the configuration file.
6172 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6173 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6175 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6177 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6178 bytes in the message body.
6180 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6181 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6184 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6186 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6188 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6189 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6190 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6191 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6198 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6199 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6201 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6202 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6203 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6204 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6205 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6207 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6208 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6210 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6211 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6212 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6214 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6215 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6216 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6218 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6221 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6222 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6223 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6224 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6225 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6226 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6227 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6233 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6234 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6235 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6236 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6237 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6238 default (and expected) setting.
6240 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6241 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6242 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6243 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6245 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6246 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6248 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6251 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6252 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6253 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6254 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6255 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6256 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6258 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6259 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6260 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6262 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6263 part (NOT match_host).
6265 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6267 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6268 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6269 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6270 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6271 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6272 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6273 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6274 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6275 the same named file.
6277 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6278 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6281 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6282 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6283 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6284 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6287 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6288 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6289 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6291 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6293 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6295 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6297 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6298 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6300 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6301 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6302 before starting the TLS session.
6304 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6306 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6307 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6309 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6310 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6311 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6312 colon in the middle).
6318 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6319 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6320 multiple configurations are in use.
6322 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6323 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6324 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6325 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6326 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6327 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6329 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6330 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6332 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6333 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6334 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6336 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6337 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6340 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6341 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6343 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6345 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6346 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6348 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6356 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6357 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6358 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6359 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6360 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6362 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6365 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6366 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6367 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6368 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6369 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6370 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6372 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6373 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6374 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6375 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6376 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6377 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6378 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6381 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6382 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6383 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6384 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6385 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6387 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6389 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6390 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6391 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6393 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6395 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6396 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6397 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6400 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6401 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6403 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6404 Three changes have been made:
6406 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6407 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6408 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6409 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6410 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6412 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6415 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6416 the modified behaviour.
6422 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6425 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6426 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6428 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6429 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6430 try to track down a specific problem.
6432 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6433 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6434 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6436 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6439 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6440 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6441 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6442 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6443 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6444 some earlier ones do not.
6446 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6448 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6449 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6450 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6451 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6452 address literals are enabled, of course).
6454 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6456 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6457 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6458 by a command such as
6462 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6464 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6466 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6467 remained set. It is now erased.
6469 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6470 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6472 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6473 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6474 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6475 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6476 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6477 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6478 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6479 appropriate error code.
6481 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6482 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6483 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6484 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6485 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6486 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6488 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6489 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6490 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6492 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6493 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6494 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6495 terminate the header.
6497 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6498 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6499 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6501 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6502 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6503 (4.30/29). In particular:
6505 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6508 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6509 to write a maildirsize file.
6511 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6512 the transport, the new value overrides.
6514 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6517 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6518 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6519 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6522 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6523 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6524 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6527 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6528 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6529 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6531 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6532 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6535 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6536 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6537 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6539 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6541 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6543 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6545 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6546 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6549 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6550 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6551 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6552 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6553 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6554 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6555 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6558 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6559 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6560 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6561 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6562 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6565 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6566 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6567 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6568 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6569 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6570 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6571 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6572 cached value only when the same options are set.
6574 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6576 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6577 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6578 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6579 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6580 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6582 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6583 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6584 it is clearly obsolete.
6586 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6589 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6590 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6591 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6594 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6595 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6596 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6597 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6598 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6600 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6601 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6602 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6603 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6605 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6607 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6609 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6610 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6613 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6614 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6615 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6616 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6617 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6618 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6621 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6622 with the -f command-line option.
6624 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6625 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6626 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6627 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6628 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6629 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6631 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6632 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6635 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6636 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6637 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6638 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6639 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6640 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6641 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6642 buffer is too small.
6644 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6645 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6647 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6648 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6649 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6650 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6651 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6652 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6653 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6654 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6655 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6657 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6658 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6659 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6661 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6662 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6665 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6666 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6667 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6668 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6669 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6671 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6672 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6673 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6674 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6677 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6679 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6681 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6682 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6684 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6685 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6686 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6688 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6689 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6690 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6691 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6692 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6694 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6695 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6696 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6697 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6698 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6699 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6700 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6702 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6703 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6704 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6705 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6706 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6707 the test of how many are available.
6709 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6710 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6711 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6712 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6713 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6714 new message is started.
6716 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6717 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6719 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6720 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6722 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6723 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6724 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6727 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6728 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6729 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6730 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6731 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6732 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6733 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6735 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6736 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6737 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6738 interpreted as octal.
6740 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6743 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6744 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6745 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6746 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6747 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6748 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6750 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6751 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6752 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6753 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6755 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6756 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6757 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6758 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6760 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6761 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6764 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6765 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6767 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6769 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6770 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6771 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6772 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6774 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6775 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6776 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6777 supplied", which is not helpful.
6779 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6780 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6781 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6783 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6784 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6785 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6786 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6787 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6788 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6789 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6790 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6792 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6793 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6794 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6795 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6796 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6798 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6799 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6800 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6801 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6802 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6803 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6805 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6806 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6807 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6809 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6811 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6812 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6813 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6816 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6818 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6819 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6820 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6821 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6822 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6823 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6824 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6825 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6827 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6828 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6829 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6830 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6831 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6833 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6836 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6837 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6838 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6839 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6840 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6841 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6842 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6843 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6844 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6850 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6851 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6852 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6854 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6857 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6858 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6859 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6861 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6862 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6863 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6864 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6865 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6866 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6868 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6869 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6870 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6871 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6872 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6873 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6874 the Exim test suite.
6876 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6877 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6878 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6879 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6881 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6882 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6883 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6884 specify it in this variable.
6886 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6887 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6888 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6889 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6891 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6892 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6893 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6894 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6896 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6897 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6898 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6899 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6900 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6902 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6904 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6907 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6908 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6909 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6910 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6911 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6913 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6914 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6916 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6917 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6918 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6919 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6920 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6922 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6923 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6925 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6926 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6927 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6929 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6930 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6932 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6933 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6935 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6936 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6937 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6939 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6940 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6942 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6943 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6944 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6945 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6947 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6949 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6950 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6951 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6952 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6954 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6956 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6957 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6959 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6961 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6962 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6963 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6964 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6965 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6966 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6968 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6970 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6971 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6974 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6976 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6977 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6979 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6980 550 Sender verify failed
6982 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6983 the final line of the response.
6985 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6986 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6987 all other user lookups.
6989 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6992 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6993 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6994 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6995 result into an int without checking.
6997 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6998 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6999 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7001 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7002 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7003 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7004 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7006 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7009 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7010 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7012 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7013 to the empty sender.
7015 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7016 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7017 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7018 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7019 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7020 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7021 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7024 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7025 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7026 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7027 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7030 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7031 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7033 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7036 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7037 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7039 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7041 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7042 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7045 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7046 as soon as it is encountered.
7048 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7050 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7053 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7054 recognizes a tab character.
7056 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7057 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7058 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7059 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7061 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7063 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7066 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7068 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7070 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7071 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7074 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7075 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7076 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7077 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7078 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7080 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7081 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7083 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7084 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7085 list (.included file names were always shown).
7087 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7088 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7089 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7092 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7093 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7095 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7097 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7099 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7101 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7102 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7103 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7104 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7105 failures to open the logs.
7107 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7108 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7109 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7110 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7111 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7112 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7113 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7119 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7120 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7121 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7124 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7125 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7126 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7128 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7129 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7130 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7132 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7133 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7134 causing some misleading effects.
7136 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7137 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7138 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7140 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7141 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7142 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7143 queue-runner function directly.
7149 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7152 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7153 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7154 was always written to the default place.
7156 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7157 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7158 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7160 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7162 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7164 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7165 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7166 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7168 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7169 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7172 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7173 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7174 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7176 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7177 command line option is disabled.
7179 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7180 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7182 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7184 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7186 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7187 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7189 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7191 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7192 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7193 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7194 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7195 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7196 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7198 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7199 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7202 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7203 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7205 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7206 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7208 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7209 received was valid base64.
7211 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7212 name of the variable that was being set.
7214 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7216 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7217 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7218 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7219 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7220 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7221 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7223 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7225 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7226 nor realm was specified.
7228 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7229 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7230 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7231 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7233 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7234 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7235 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7237 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7238 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7239 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7241 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7242 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7243 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7244 some systems use these upper case variants.
7246 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7247 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7248 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7249 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7251 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7253 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7254 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7256 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7257 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7260 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7262 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7263 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7264 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7265 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7267 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7270 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7271 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7272 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7274 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7275 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7277 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7278 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7279 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7280 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7282 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7283 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7284 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7286 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7288 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7289 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7290 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7291 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7294 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7295 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7296 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7298 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7300 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7301 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7303 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7304 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7306 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7307 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7308 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7309 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7310 when emails are that large.
7317 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7318 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7320 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7321 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7322 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7324 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7325 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7326 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7328 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7329 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7330 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7331 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7332 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7334 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7335 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7336 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7337 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7338 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7341 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7342 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7343 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7344 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7345 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7346 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7347 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7348 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7349 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7350 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7351 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7352 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7353 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7354 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7356 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7357 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7360 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7361 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7362 error should be diagnosed.
7364 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7365 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7366 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7367 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7368 appeared instead of "NULL".
7370 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7371 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7372 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7373 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7374 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7375 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7378 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7379 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7380 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7386 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7387 or receiver verification errors.
7389 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7392 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7393 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7394 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7395 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7397 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7398 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7399 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7400 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7401 shouldn't happen again.
7403 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7404 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7405 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7407 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7408 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7410 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7412 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7413 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7415 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7416 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7419 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7420 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7421 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7423 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7424 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7425 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7426 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7428 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7429 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7430 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7431 to define what should happen).
7433 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7434 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7435 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7437 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7439 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7441 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7442 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7444 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7445 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7446 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7447 structure in all cases.
7449 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7450 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7451 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7452 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7454 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7455 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7458 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7459 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7461 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7462 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7464 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7465 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7466 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7468 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7469 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7470 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7472 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7473 the book and for uniformity.
7475 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7477 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7478 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7479 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7480 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7481 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7482 non-existent command as the problem.
7484 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7485 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7486 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7488 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7490 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7491 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7492 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7494 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7495 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7496 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7497 timestamps using strftime().
7499 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7500 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7502 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7503 transport-time rewrites.
7505 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7506 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7507 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7508 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7510 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7511 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7513 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7514 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7515 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7516 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7519 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7520 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7521 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7522 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7523 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7524 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7525 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7527 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7528 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7529 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7530 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7531 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7533 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7534 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7535 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7536 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7537 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7538 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7539 remaining text gets split now.
7541 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7542 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7543 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7544 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7546 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7547 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7548 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7549 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7552 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7553 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7554 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7555 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7556 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7557 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7558 passed through if needed.
7560 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7561 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7562 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7563 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7564 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7565 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7567 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7568 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7569 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7570 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7571 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7573 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7574 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7575 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7576 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7577 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7579 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7580 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7583 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7584 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7585 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7586 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7587 mayhem of various kinds.
7589 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7590 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7591 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7592 the right test for positive values.
7594 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7595 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7596 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7597 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7598 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7599 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7600 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7601 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7602 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7603 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7606 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7609 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7610 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7613 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7614 the existing equality matching.
7616 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7617 dealing with inode numbers.
7619 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7620 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7621 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7623 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7624 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7625 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7626 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7629 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7630 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7631 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7632 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7633 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7634 relay addresses has also been removed.
7636 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7638 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7639 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7640 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7642 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7643 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7644 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7645 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7646 processing applies to CR:
7648 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7649 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7651 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7652 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7653 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7654 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7656 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7657 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7658 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7660 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7661 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7662 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7663 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7664 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7665 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7668 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7671 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7672 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7673 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7674 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7677 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7679 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7681 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7683 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7684 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7685 not considered personal.
7687 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7689 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7691 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7693 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7694 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7695 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7696 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7697 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7698 header lines, and spool format errors.
7700 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7701 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7702 for more flexibility.
7704 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7705 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7706 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7708 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7711 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7712 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7713 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7714 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7715 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7716 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7717 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7718 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7719 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7721 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7722 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7723 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7724 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7725 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7726 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7727 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7729 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7730 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7731 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7733 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7734 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7735 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7736 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7737 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7738 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7739 instead of killing the process with assert().
7741 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7742 than Unicode encoding.
7744 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7745 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7746 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7747 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7749 77. Added process_log_path.
7751 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7752 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7754 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7755 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7757 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7758 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7759 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7761 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7762 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7763 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7764 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7765 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7768 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7769 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7772 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7773 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7774 they will be used during message reception.
7780 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.