1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
16 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
34 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
35 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
36 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
39 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
40 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
41 by adding a relase action in that path.
43 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
44 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
45 dynamically-created buffers.
47 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
48 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
49 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
50 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
52 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
53 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
54 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
55 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
57 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
58 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
59 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
61 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
62 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
63 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
64 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
66 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
67 excluded, not matching the documentation.
69 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
70 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
72 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
73 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
74 this was a coding error.
76 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
77 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
78 spent suspended, ignoring the Posix definition. Previously we assumed
79 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
80 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
81 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
82 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
84 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
85 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
86 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignement. Discovery and fix by
87 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
89 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
90 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
91 dynamicaly created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
92 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
93 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
95 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
96 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
99 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
100 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
101 domain-parking registrar.
103 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
104 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
105 after removing the newline.
107 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
108 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
109 option set, which was previously used.
111 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
114 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
115 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
116 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
117 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
119 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
120 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
121 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
122 exim.dev.20160529.3).
124 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
125 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
126 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
128 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
129 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
130 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
133 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
134 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
135 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
137 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
138 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
139 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
140 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
143 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
144 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
145 there, handle PRX and TFO.
147 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
148 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
149 in a panic-log trigerrable by sending a message with a long address in
150 a header. Fix by increaing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
151 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
153 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
154 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
155 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
156 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
159 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
160 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
162 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
165 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
166 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
167 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
168 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
169 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
171 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
173 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
174 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
175 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
176 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
177 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
178 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
180 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
181 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
188 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
189 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
190 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
192 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
194 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
195 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
198 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
199 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
200 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
202 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
204 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
206 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
207 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
208 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
210 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
211 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
212 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
214 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
215 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
217 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
218 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
221 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
222 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
223 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
224 should both provide the file and set the option.
225 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
227 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
228 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
230 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
231 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
232 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
233 Authentication-Results: header.
235 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
236 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
237 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
238 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
240 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
241 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
242 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
243 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
244 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
245 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
246 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
248 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
249 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
250 copies while it is still usable.
252 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
253 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
254 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
256 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
257 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
259 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
260 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
261 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
262 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
264 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
265 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
266 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
269 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
270 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
271 - the pipe transport command
272 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
273 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
275 - paths used by single-key lookups
276 Previously this was permitted.
278 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
279 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
280 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
281 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
283 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
284 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
285 support larger malloc requests.
287 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
288 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
289 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
290 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
292 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
293 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
294 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
295 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
298 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
299 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
300 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
301 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
302 data being length-specified.
304 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
305 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
306 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
307 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
309 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
310 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
311 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
312 not being properly tracked.
314 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
315 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
316 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
317 minute could be seen.
319 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
320 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
321 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
323 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
324 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
326 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
327 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
330 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
332 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
333 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
335 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
336 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
337 filesystem as sufficient validation.
339 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
340 argument is supplied.
342 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
343 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
344 access under Exim's current working directory.
346 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
347 Previously no event was raised.
349 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
350 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
351 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
354 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
355 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
356 the size of the signature hash.
358 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
359 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
361 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
362 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
363 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
364 dropped between messages.
366 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
367 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
368 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
369 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
371 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
372 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
373 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
374 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
375 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
376 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
377 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
378 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
379 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
381 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
382 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
383 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
385 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
386 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
393 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
394 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
396 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
397 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
400 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
403 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
405 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
407 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
408 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
410 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
411 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
412 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
413 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
414 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
415 suitably configured).
417 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
418 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
420 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
421 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
424 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
425 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
427 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
428 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
429 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
430 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
433 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
434 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
435 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
437 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
440 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
441 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
443 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
444 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
445 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
446 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
449 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
450 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
451 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
452 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
455 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
456 shared (NFS) environment.
458 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
459 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
462 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
463 on some platforms for bit 31.
465 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
466 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
467 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
468 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
469 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
470 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
471 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
472 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
474 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
476 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
477 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
479 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
480 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
483 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
484 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
487 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
488 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
489 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
492 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
493 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
494 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
496 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
497 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
498 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
499 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
500 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
502 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
505 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
506 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
507 be requested on all coneections.
509 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
510 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
512 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
514 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
515 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
516 one for these; the option was ignored.
518 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
519 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
520 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
521 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
523 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
524 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
525 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
528 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
529 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
530 error ignored was made.
532 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
534 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
535 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
536 values, to catch one form of exploit.
538 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
539 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
540 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
542 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
543 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
546 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
547 them in our smtp response.
549 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
550 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
551 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
552 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
553 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
555 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
556 link count into consideration.
558 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
559 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
561 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
562 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
563 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
566 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
568 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
570 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
572 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
573 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
574 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
575 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
577 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
579 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
580 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
583 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
584 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
585 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
587 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
588 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
589 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
591 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
592 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
593 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
594 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
595 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
596 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
597 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
598 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
600 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
601 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
602 resulted in an indefinite loop.
604 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
605 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
606 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
612 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
613 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
615 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
616 non-signal-safe functions being used.
618 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
619 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
620 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
622 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
623 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
624 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
626 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
627 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
628 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
629 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
630 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
633 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
634 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
636 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
637 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
638 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
639 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
640 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
641 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
642 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
644 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
645 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
647 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
650 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
651 Previously this would segfault.
653 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
656 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
657 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
658 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
659 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
660 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
661 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
663 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
665 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
666 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
667 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
668 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
670 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
672 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
673 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
674 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
675 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
677 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
679 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
681 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
682 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
683 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
685 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
686 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
687 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
689 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
691 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
692 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
693 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
694 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
696 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
697 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
698 promised '?' replacement.
700 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
702 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
703 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
704 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
705 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
706 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
708 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
709 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
710 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
712 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
713 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
714 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
716 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
717 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
718 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
720 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
721 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
722 hope that is portable enough.
724 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
725 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
726 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
727 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
729 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
730 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
731 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
733 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
734 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
735 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
736 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
738 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
739 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
741 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
742 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
743 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
744 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
746 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
747 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
748 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
750 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
751 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
752 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
753 the previous G, M, k.
755 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
756 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
759 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
760 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
761 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
762 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
764 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
765 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
767 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
768 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
769 off past the nul-terimation.
771 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
772 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
773 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
774 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
775 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
777 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
779 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
780 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
781 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
784 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
785 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
787 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
788 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
789 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
791 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
792 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
793 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
795 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
796 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
802 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
803 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
804 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
805 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
806 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
807 be defined in redis_servers.
809 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
810 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
812 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
813 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
814 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
815 extant use locations.
817 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
818 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
820 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
821 Previously only the last row was returned.
823 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
824 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
825 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
826 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
829 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
830 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
831 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
832 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
833 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
834 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
835 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
836 Main pool for expansions.
837 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
838 active in the testsuite.
839 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
841 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
842 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
843 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
844 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
847 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
848 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
851 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
852 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
853 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
855 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
856 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
857 ClamAV interface method is removed.
859 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
860 rows affected is given instead).
862 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
863 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
865 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
866 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
867 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
868 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
869 for all multi-message initiating connections.
871 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
872 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
873 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
875 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
876 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
877 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
878 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
881 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
882 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
883 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
886 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
888 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
889 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
891 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
892 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
893 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
895 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
896 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
897 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
900 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
901 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
903 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
904 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
905 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
907 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
908 for the build is renamed.
910 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
911 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
912 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
914 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
915 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
916 result replacing the original.
918 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
919 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
920 and the resources needed to be freed.
922 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
924 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
927 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
928 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
929 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
930 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
932 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
933 length value. Previously this would segfault.
935 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
936 newer versions of the scanner.
938 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
939 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
940 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
941 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
942 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
943 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
944 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
946 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
947 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
948 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
949 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
950 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
951 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
952 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
953 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
954 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
955 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
957 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
958 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
960 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
962 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
963 allows proper process termination in container environments.
965 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
966 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
968 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
969 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
970 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
972 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
973 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
974 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
975 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
977 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
978 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
981 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
982 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
984 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
985 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
986 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
987 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
988 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
990 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
991 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
994 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
995 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
997 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1000 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1001 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1002 "bare" representation.
1004 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1005 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1006 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1007 corrupted the output.
1013 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1014 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1015 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1016 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1018 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1019 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1021 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1022 This permits better logging.
1024 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1025 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1026 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1027 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1028 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1029 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1031 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1032 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1035 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1036 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1037 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1039 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1040 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1042 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1043 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1044 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1045 client, there is no benefit for these.
1046 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1047 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1048 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1051 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1052 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1054 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1055 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1056 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1058 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1059 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1061 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1062 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1063 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1064 signature and again for transmission.
1066 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1067 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1068 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1070 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1071 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1072 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1073 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1074 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1075 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1076 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1078 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1079 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1080 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1081 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1083 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1084 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1085 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1086 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1087 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1088 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1091 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1092 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1093 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1094 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1097 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1098 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1099 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1100 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1103 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1104 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1107 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1108 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1109 banner-time rejection.
1111 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1114 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1115 is the name of a transport.
1118 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1120 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1121 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1123 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1124 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1125 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1128 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1129 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1130 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1131 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1133 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1134 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1135 initial verify call returned a defer.
1137 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1138 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1140 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1141 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1143 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1144 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1146 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1147 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1149 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1150 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1153 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1154 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1156 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1157 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1158 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1160 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1161 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1162 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1163 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1165 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1166 and confused the parent.
1168 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1169 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1171 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1174 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1175 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1176 out-of-order delivery.
1178 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1179 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1180 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1183 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1184 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1187 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1188 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1189 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1191 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1192 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1193 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1194 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1195 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1196 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1198 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1199 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1200 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1202 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1203 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1204 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1206 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1207 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1208 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1209 though a different problem.
1215 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1216 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1218 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1220 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1221 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1223 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1224 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1226 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1227 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1228 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1229 before acknowledging the chunk.
1231 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1232 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1233 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1235 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1236 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1237 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1240 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1241 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1242 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1244 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1245 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1247 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1248 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1249 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1250 body hash calculated value.
1252 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1253 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1254 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1256 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1258 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1259 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1261 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1262 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1263 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1265 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1266 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1267 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1268 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1269 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1270 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1272 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1273 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1274 past that check, despite the cost.
1276 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1277 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1278 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1280 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1281 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1282 TLS library to consume.
1284 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1286 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1288 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1289 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1290 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1291 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1292 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1293 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1294 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1296 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1298 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1300 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1301 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1302 should be warning-free.
1304 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1306 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1307 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1309 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1310 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1311 general solution here.
1313 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1314 already-broken messages in the queue.
1316 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1318 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1324 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1325 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1327 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1328 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1329 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1331 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1332 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1333 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1334 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1335 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1336 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1337 if one fails this test.
1338 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1339 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1341 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1342 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1344 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1345 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1347 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1348 in rewrites and routers.
1350 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1351 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1353 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1354 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1356 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1358 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1361 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1362 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1363 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1364 connection after a verify cache hit.
1365 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1367 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1368 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1370 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1371 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1372 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1373 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1374 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1376 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1377 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1379 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1380 Previously they were not counted.
1382 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1383 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1384 that needed the lookup.
1386 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1387 distinguished as "(=".
1389 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1390 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1392 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1394 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1395 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1397 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1398 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1400 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1401 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1404 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1405 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1406 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1407 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1409 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1411 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1412 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1413 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1415 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1416 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1417 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1420 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1421 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1422 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1425 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1426 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1427 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1429 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1430 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1433 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1435 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1436 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1438 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1439 are not in the system include path.
1441 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1442 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1443 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1444 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1446 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1447 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1448 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1450 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1452 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1453 an incoming connection.
1455 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1458 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1459 fallback to "prime256v1".
1461 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1462 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1468 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1469 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1470 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1471 client dropping the TLS connection.
1473 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1474 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1476 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1477 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1478 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1479 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1482 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1483 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1484 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1485 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1486 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1487 check on the next write.
1489 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1490 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1491 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1492 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1493 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1495 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1496 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1498 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1499 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1500 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1502 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1503 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1504 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1505 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1507 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1508 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1510 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1511 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1513 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1514 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1515 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1518 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1520 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1522 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1524 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1525 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1527 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1528 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1530 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1532 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1533 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1535 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1537 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1538 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1540 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1542 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1543 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1544 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1545 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1546 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1547 they will retry in-clear.
1548 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1549 at installation time.
1551 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1552 with the $config_file variable.
1554 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1555 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1556 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1557 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1558 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1560 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1561 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1562 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1563 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1564 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1566 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1568 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1569 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1570 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1571 list order is no longer honoured.
1573 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1574 for DKIM processing.
1576 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1577 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1579 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1580 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1581 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1582 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1584 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1585 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1587 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1588 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1590 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1591 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1593 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1595 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1596 cached by the daemon.
1598 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1599 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1601 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1602 keys are given for lookup.
1604 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1605 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1606 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1607 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1609 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1610 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1611 server-side so match that on older versions.
1613 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1614 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1615 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1617 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1618 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1620 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1621 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1622 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1623 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1624 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1625 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1626 initial truncated version.
1628 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1630 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1632 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1633 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1635 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1637 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1639 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1640 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1643 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1644 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1647 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1648 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1650 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1651 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1654 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1655 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1656 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1658 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1659 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1660 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1661 extraction. Accept either.
1667 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1670 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1672 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1675 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1676 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1677 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1678 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1680 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1681 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1682 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1684 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1685 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1686 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1689 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1692 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1693 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1694 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1695 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1696 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1698 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1699 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1700 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1702 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1704 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1705 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1707 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1708 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1710 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1713 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1714 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1716 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1717 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1718 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1720 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1721 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1722 specify a port-range.
1724 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1725 timeout value per server.
1727 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1728 now have the list separator specified.
1730 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1733 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1736 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1738 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1739 rather than the verbs used.
1741 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1742 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1744 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1746 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1747 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1749 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1750 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1752 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1753 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1755 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1757 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1759 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1760 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1761 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1762 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1764 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1766 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1767 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1769 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1770 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1772 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1774 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1776 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1778 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1779 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1781 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1782 added for tls authenticator.
1784 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1790 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1791 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1792 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1793 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1794 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1795 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1796 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1798 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1799 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1800 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1801 function when detected.
1803 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1804 cause callback expansion.
1806 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1807 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1808 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1809 instead of bool when processing it.
1811 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1812 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1814 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1816 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1818 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1820 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1821 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1823 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1824 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1825 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1826 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1827 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1828 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1830 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1831 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1834 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1835 version 3.3.6 or later.
1837 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1838 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1839 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1840 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1841 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1842 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1845 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1846 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1848 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1849 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1850 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1853 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1854 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1855 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1857 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1858 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1860 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1861 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1864 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1866 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1867 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1869 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1870 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1873 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1875 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1878 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1879 output list separator was used.
1884 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1885 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1888 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1889 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1891 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1893 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1894 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1900 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1902 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1903 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1904 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1905 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1906 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1907 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1909 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1910 utilities have not been installed.
1912 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1913 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1915 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1916 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1918 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1919 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1920 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1921 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1923 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1925 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1926 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1928 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1931 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1933 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1934 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1935 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1937 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1938 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1939 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1940 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1941 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1942 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1944 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1946 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1947 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1949 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1952 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1954 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1956 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1957 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1959 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1960 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1962 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1964 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1966 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1967 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1969 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1970 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1971 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1973 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1974 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1975 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1978 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1980 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1981 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1984 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1985 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1988 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1989 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1991 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1992 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1994 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1996 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1997 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1998 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2000 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2001 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2003 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2004 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2007 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2008 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2009 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2011 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2013 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2014 Christian Aistleitner.
2016 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2018 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2019 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2021 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2022 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2024 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2025 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2027 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2028 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2030 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2031 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2033 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2034 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2035 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2037 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2039 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2040 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2043 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2045 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2046 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2053 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2055 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2056 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2058 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2061 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2062 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2065 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2067 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2068 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2069 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2070 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2071 using channel bindings instead).
2073 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2074 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2075 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2076 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2077 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2080 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2082 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2084 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2085 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2087 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2088 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2089 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2091 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2093 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2095 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2096 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2098 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2100 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2102 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2104 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2105 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2107 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2109 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2110 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2113 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2114 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2116 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2117 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2120 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2122 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2124 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2125 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2127 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2130 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2131 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2133 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2134 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2136 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2138 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2140 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2143 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2146 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2148 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2149 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2150 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2151 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2153 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2155 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2156 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2157 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2158 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2161 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2162 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2163 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2165 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2166 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2167 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2168 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2170 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2171 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2172 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2173 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2174 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2175 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2176 delivery, as in LMTP.
2178 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2179 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2181 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2183 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2187 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2188 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2189 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2190 username as equal to the username.
2192 This change corrects that bug.
2194 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2195 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2196 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2198 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2200 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2201 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2202 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2203 NULL dereference and crash.
2205 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2207 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2208 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2209 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2211 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2213 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2214 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2215 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2216 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2217 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2218 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2219 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2220 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2221 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2222 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2223 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2225 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2226 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2228 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2229 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2232 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2233 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2234 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2235 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2236 an empty string is now equivalent.
2238 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2239 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2240 not performing validation itself.
2242 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2243 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2245 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2248 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2250 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2251 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2252 other false fix of the same issue.
2253 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2256 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2257 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2259 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2260 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2261 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2263 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2264 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2265 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2267 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2269 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2271 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2272 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2274 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2277 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2278 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2279 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2280 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2281 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2283 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2284 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2286 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2287 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2290 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2291 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2292 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2293 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2295 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2297 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2298 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2299 from multiple comments on this bug.
2301 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2303 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2304 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2307 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2308 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2310 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2311 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2317 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2319 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2325 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2326 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2327 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2329 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2331 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2334 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2336 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2338 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2340 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2341 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2343 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2344 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2346 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2347 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2349 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2350 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2351 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2353 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2355 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2356 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2358 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2360 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2362 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2363 non-compliant senders.
2364 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2366 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2367 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2368 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2370 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2371 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2372 in spool file corruption.
2374 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2375 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2376 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2379 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2380 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2381 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2383 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2384 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2386 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2388 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2390 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2392 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2393 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2394 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2396 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2397 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2398 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2399 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2401 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2402 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2404 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2405 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2406 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2407 resolver implementation change.
2409 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2410 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2412 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2414 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2416 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2417 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2419 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2420 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2422 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2423 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2425 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2426 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2427 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2428 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2429 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2431 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2433 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2434 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2435 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2437 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2439 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2440 read-only, out of scope).
2441 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2443 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2444 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2445 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2446 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2448 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2450 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2451 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2452 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2453 real issues in debug logging.
2455 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2456 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2458 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2459 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2460 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2462 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2463 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2464 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2467 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2468 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2470 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2471 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2472 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2473 needs to override this, it can.
2475 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2476 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2477 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2479 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2480 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2481 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2482 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2484 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2490 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2491 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2493 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2495 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2498 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2499 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2501 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2502 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2503 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2505 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2506 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2507 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2508 not safe for signals.
2510 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2511 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2512 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2513 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2516 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2518 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2519 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2520 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2521 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2522 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2524 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2525 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2526 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2527 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2528 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2529 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2531 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2532 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2533 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2534 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2536 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2537 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2538 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2539 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2541 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2542 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2543 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2544 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2545 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2546 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2547 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2548 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2549 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2551 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2552 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2553 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2554 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2556 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2557 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2558 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2559 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2560 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2561 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2562 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2563 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2564 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2565 details in the main documentation.
2567 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2569 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2571 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2572 repository when doing development or release builds.
2574 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2575 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2577 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2578 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2581 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2583 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2584 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2586 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2587 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2589 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2590 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2592 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2593 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2595 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2596 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2598 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2600 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2603 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2604 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2605 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2607 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2609 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2611 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2612 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2618 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2620 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2621 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2623 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2625 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2627 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2630 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2631 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2633 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2634 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2636 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2637 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2639 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2642 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2643 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2645 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2646 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2647 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2648 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2650 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2651 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2657 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2660 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2661 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2662 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2664 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2665 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2667 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2668 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2669 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2671 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2672 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2674 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2675 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2677 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2678 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2680 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2681 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2683 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2684 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2686 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2689 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2690 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2692 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2693 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2695 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2696 SQL string expansion failure details.
2697 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2699 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2700 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2702 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2703 extern declarations in function scope.
2704 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2706 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2707 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2708 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2711 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2712 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2714 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2715 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2717 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2718 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2720 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2721 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2723 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2724 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2727 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2729 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2731 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2732 Patch by Simon Arlott
2734 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2735 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2741 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2742 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2744 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2745 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2747 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2749 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2750 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2751 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2753 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2754 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2755 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2757 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2758 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2759 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2760 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2762 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2763 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2764 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2765 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2767 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2768 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2769 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2772 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2775 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2776 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2777 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2778 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2779 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2785 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2786 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2787 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2789 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2790 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2792 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2794 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2796 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2798 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2800 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2802 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2803 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2804 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2805 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2807 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2808 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2809 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2810 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2811 more caution in buffer sizes.
2813 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2815 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2817 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2819 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2821 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2823 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2825 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2827 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2828 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2829 ignore trailing whitespace.
2831 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2833 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2836 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2837 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2839 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2840 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2841 Notification from John Horne.
2843 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2846 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2847 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2850 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2853 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2854 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2855 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2857 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2858 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2859 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2862 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2863 option (effectively making it always true).
2865 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2866 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2868 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2869 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2871 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2872 run-time user, instead of root.
2874 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2875 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2877 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2878 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2881 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2882 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2883 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2885 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2887 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2893 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2894 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2897 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2898 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2901 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2902 Patch from Alain Williams
2904 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2906 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2907 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2909 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2910 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2912 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2914 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2916 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2917 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2919 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2921 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2923 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2924 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2925 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2927 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2928 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2930 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2931 Patch by Simon Arlott
2933 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2934 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2940 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2942 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2944 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2946 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2948 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2954 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2955 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2957 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2958 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2961 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2962 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2963 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2965 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2966 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2968 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2969 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2970 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2971 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2973 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2974 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2975 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2977 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2979 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2981 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2982 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2984 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2986 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2987 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2988 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2989 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2991 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2992 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2994 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2996 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2998 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2999 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3001 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3002 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3004 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3005 that they are available at delivery time.
3007 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3009 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3010 incoming_port log selectors.
3012 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3013 setting expands to an empty string.
3015 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3016 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3018 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3019 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3021 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3022 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3024 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3025 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3027 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3028 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3030 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3031 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3033 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3035 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3036 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3038 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3039 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3041 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3043 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3044 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3046 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3048 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3050 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3053 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3054 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3056 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3057 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3059 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3060 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3062 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3063 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3065 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3066 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3068 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3069 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3071 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3072 plus update to original patch.
3074 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3076 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3077 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3079 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3081 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3083 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3085 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3087 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3088 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3090 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3091 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3093 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3094 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3096 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3097 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3099 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3101 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3103 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3105 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3111 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3112 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3113 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3115 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3116 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3117 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3118 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3119 build errors in sieve.c.
3121 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3122 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3123 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3125 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3127 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3129 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3131 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3137 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3139 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3140 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3141 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3142 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3143 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3144 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3145 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3146 for iplsearch lookups.
3148 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3149 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3150 previously such lookups could never work.
3152 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3153 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3154 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3156 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3159 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3160 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3161 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3162 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3163 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3164 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3166 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3167 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3169 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3170 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3171 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3172 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3173 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3174 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3176 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3179 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3181 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3182 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3185 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3186 by clients under certain conditions.
3188 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3189 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3191 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3193 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3194 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3196 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3198 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3200 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3202 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3203 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3205 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3207 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3208 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3210 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3212 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3214 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3215 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3216 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3217 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3219 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3220 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3221 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3223 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3224 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3226 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3228 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3230 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3232 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3233 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3234 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3240 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3241 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3244 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3245 issue a MAIL command.
3247 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3249 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3251 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3252 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3253 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3254 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3255 item. This has been fixed.
3257 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3258 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3260 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3261 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3263 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3264 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3265 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3267 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3269 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3270 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3271 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3272 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3273 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3275 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3276 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3277 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3279 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3280 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3281 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3282 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3284 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3286 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3288 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3289 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3290 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3291 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3292 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3294 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3296 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3297 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3298 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3301 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3303 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3305 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3307 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3309 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3311 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3312 no_callout_flush is set.
3314 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3315 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3316 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3319 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3321 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3322 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3323 other ACL rejections are.
3325 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3326 with slight modification.
3328 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3329 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3331 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3332 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3335 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3336 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3338 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3340 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3341 expansion side effects.
3343 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3344 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3345 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3348 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3349 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3350 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3352 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3353 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3354 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3355 were accidentally chopped off.
3357 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3358 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3359 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3360 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3361 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3362 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3363 pipelining has not been advertised.
3365 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3367 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3368 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3369 This has been fixed.
3371 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3372 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3373 reported on Solaris.
3375 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3376 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3377 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3378 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3379 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3380 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3381 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3383 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3386 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3388 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3390 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3391 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3392 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3393 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3394 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3395 criteria to be more general.
3397 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3398 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3399 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3400 host_all_ignored option.
3402 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3403 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3404 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3405 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3406 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3407 is what is supposed to happen).
3409 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3410 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3411 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3412 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3413 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3416 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3417 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3418 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3419 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3420 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3421 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3424 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3426 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3427 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3429 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3430 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3432 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3434 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3436 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3437 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3438 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3439 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3440 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3441 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3442 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3443 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3444 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3445 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3446 least in a lot of common cases.
3448 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3449 advertised in response to EHLO.
3455 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3456 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3458 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3459 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3461 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3462 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3463 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3465 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3466 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3467 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3468 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3469 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3475 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3476 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3479 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3480 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3481 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3483 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3484 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3485 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3486 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3487 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3488 rather than extend the field.
3494 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3495 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3496 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3497 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3500 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3501 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3502 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3504 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3505 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3506 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3508 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3509 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3510 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3513 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3514 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3515 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3516 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3517 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3518 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3519 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3520 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3521 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3522 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3523 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3525 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3528 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3529 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3530 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3531 ignores EPIPE as well.
3533 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3534 (quoted-printable decoding).
3536 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3537 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3539 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3541 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3543 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3545 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3546 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3548 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3551 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3552 miscellaneous code fixes
3554 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3557 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3558 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3559 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3560 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3561 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3562 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3563 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3564 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3566 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3567 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3568 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3569 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3571 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3572 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3573 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3574 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3575 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3576 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3577 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3578 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3579 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3581 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3584 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3585 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3586 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3587 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3588 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3589 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3590 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3591 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3593 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3594 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3597 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3598 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3599 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3600 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3601 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3602 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3603 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3604 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3605 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3606 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3607 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3608 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3609 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3611 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3612 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3613 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3614 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3615 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3616 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3617 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3619 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3620 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3621 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3622 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3623 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3624 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3625 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3626 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3627 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3628 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3630 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3631 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3632 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3633 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3634 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3636 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3637 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3638 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3639 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3640 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3641 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3642 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3644 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3645 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3646 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3647 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3648 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3649 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3652 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3653 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3654 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3657 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3658 if any retry times were supplied.
3660 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3661 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3662 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3664 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3666 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3668 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3669 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3670 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3671 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3672 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3673 before) are ignored.
3675 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3676 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3678 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3679 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3680 committing the later change.]
3682 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3683 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3684 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3685 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3686 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3687 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3688 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3689 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3690 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3692 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3693 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3694 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3695 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3696 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3697 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3698 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3699 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3700 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3702 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3703 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3704 hammering the server.
3706 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3707 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3709 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3711 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3712 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3713 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3715 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3716 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3717 one case where this was not true.
3719 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3720 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3721 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3722 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3725 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3726 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3727 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3728 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3729 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3730 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3731 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3732 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3733 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3736 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3737 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3738 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3739 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3741 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3742 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3744 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3745 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3746 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3748 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3750 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3752 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3754 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3755 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3756 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3757 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3759 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3760 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3762 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3763 be meaningful with "accept".
3765 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3766 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3768 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3769 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3770 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3772 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3773 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3774 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3775 there is data to show.
3776 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3778 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3779 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3780 as well as the number of messages.
3782 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3783 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3784 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3786 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3787 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3788 have a flag are now skipped.
3790 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3791 Added the -emptyok flag.
3793 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3794 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3796 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3797 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3798 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3800 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3803 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3804 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3806 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3808 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3809 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3811 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3813 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3814 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3815 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3816 contravention of the specifications.
3818 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3819 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3820 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3822 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3823 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3824 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3826 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3828 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3829 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3830 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3831 some point in the past.
3833 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3834 transport during callout processing was broken.
3836 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3837 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3839 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3840 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3842 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3843 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3845 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3851 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3852 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3854 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3855 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3856 there is data to show.
3857 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3859 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3860 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3862 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3863 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3865 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3866 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3868 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3869 submissions from trusted users.
3871 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3872 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3874 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3875 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3876 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3877 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3878 there is now a framework to start from.
3880 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3881 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3882 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3884 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3886 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3888 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3890 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3891 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3892 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3894 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3897 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3898 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3899 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3901 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3902 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3903 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3906 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3907 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3908 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3909 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3910 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3912 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3913 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3915 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3917 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3918 operations in malware.c.
3920 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3923 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3924 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3925 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3928 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3929 statements to "add_header".
3931 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3932 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3934 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3935 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3938 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3942 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3943 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3944 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3947 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3948 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3950 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3951 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3953 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3954 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3955 any possible encoding problems.
3957 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3958 but not after initializing Perl.
3960 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3961 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3962 apparently, which is not desirable.
3964 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3967 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3970 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3972 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3973 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3974 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3975 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3977 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3978 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3979 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3981 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3982 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3983 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3986 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3987 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3988 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3989 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3990 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3996 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3997 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3999 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4002 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4003 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4004 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4005 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4006 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4007 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4008 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4009 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4012 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4014 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4015 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4016 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4018 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4019 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4020 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4023 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4024 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4026 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4027 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4028 option (which defaults to 0600).
4030 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4032 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4033 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4034 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4035 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4036 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4037 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4038 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4040 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4046 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4047 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4048 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4049 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4050 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4051 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4054 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4055 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4057 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4059 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4060 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4061 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4062 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4063 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4066 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4067 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4069 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4070 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4071 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4072 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4073 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4075 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4076 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4077 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4078 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4080 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4081 be the same on different OS.
4083 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4086 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4087 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4089 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4092 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4093 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4094 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4095 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4096 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4097 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4100 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4101 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4102 when Exim was called.
4104 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4105 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4107 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4108 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4109 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4110 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4112 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4113 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4114 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4115 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4118 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4119 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4120 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4122 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4123 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4124 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4126 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4129 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4130 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4131 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4132 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4133 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4134 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4135 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4136 values from the SRV records were lost.
4138 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4139 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4140 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4142 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4143 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4144 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4146 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4147 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4148 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4149 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4150 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4151 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4152 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4153 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4154 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4155 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4157 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4158 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4159 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4161 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4162 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4164 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4165 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4166 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4167 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4170 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4171 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4172 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4174 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4175 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4176 PH/23 above applies.
4178 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4179 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4180 (for which there is an explicit test).
4182 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4184 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4185 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4186 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4187 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4188 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4190 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4191 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4192 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4193 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4195 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4196 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4197 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4199 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4201 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4203 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4204 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4205 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4207 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4208 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4209 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4210 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4211 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4213 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4214 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4215 the message gets confusing).
4217 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4218 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4219 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4220 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4222 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4223 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4224 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4225 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4228 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4229 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4230 the different processes.
4232 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4234 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4236 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4237 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4239 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4240 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4242 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4243 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4244 messages matching specified criteria.
4246 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4248 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4249 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4251 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4252 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4253 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4254 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4255 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4256 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4257 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4258 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4259 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4260 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4262 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4263 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4264 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4266 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4268 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4269 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4270 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4271 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4272 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4273 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4274 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4277 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4278 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4280 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4282 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4284 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4286 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4287 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4288 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4289 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4290 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4291 size of the count of files.
4293 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4295 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4298 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4299 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4300 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4301 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4303 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4304 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4305 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4307 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4308 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4309 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4310 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4311 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4313 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4314 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4316 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4317 will now be deprecated.
4319 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4321 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4322 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4323 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4325 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4326 with very large, slow to parse queues
4328 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4330 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4332 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4333 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4334 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4337 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4338 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4339 Sieve code now uses this.
4341 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4342 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4344 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4345 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4347 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4349 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4350 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4351 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4352 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4353 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4355 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4356 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4357 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4358 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4360 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4362 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4364 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4365 is preferred over IPv4.
4367 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4368 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4369 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4370 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4371 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4372 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4373 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4375 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4376 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4377 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4379 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4381 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4382 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4383 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4384 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4385 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4386 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4387 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4388 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4389 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4390 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4391 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4393 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4394 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4395 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4401 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4403 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4404 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4406 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4407 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4408 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4410 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4412 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4415 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4418 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4419 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4420 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4423 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4424 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4426 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4427 inside the third argument.
4429 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4430 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4433 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4434 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4436 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4437 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4439 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4441 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4442 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4445 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4447 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4448 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4449 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4450 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4451 identical. For example:
4453 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4455 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4456 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4457 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4459 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4460 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4461 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4462 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4464 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4465 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4466 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4469 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4471 o fixes some comments
4472 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4473 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4474 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4475 and documents the missing references header update
4479 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4480 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4483 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4484 Electronic Mail") by including:
4486 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4488 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4489 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4490 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4491 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4492 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4494 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4496 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4498 The auto-replied keyword:
4500 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4501 message by an automatic process,
4503 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4505 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4506 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4508 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4509 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4512 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4513 to the default Received: header definition.
4515 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4517 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4518 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4519 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4521 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4522 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4523 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4525 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4526 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4527 and treats the condition as false.
4529 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4531 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4532 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4533 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4534 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4535 not changing the active code.
4537 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4538 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4540 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4541 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4543 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4546 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4547 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4548 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4549 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4550 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4551 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4552 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4553 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4554 the text comparison.
4556 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4557 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4558 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4559 The same fix has been applied.
4565 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4566 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4569 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4570 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4572 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4574 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4575 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4576 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4577 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4578 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4580 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4581 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4582 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4583 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4586 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4594 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4595 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4597 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4599 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4601 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4602 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4603 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4605 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4606 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4607 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4609 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4610 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4613 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4614 ${stat: expansion item.
4616 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4617 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4619 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4620 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4623 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4625 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4628 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4629 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4631 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4633 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4634 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4635 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4636 the end of the subprocess.
4638 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4639 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4640 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4641 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4642 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4644 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4646 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4648 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4649 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4651 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4653 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4655 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4656 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4659 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4661 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4662 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4663 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4665 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4666 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4668 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4669 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4671 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4672 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4674 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4675 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4677 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4678 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4679 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4680 contributed by a Radius user.
4682 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4683 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4685 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4686 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4688 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4691 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4692 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4695 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4696 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4697 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4698 header lines when this was not necessary.
4700 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4702 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4703 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4704 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4707 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4710 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4711 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4712 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4713 return code was incorrect.
4715 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4717 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4719 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4721 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4723 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4724 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4725 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4726 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4727 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4730 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4732 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4733 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4734 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4735 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4736 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4737 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4738 which is clearly wrong.
4740 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4742 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4743 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4744 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4747 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4748 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4750 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4752 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4753 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4755 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4756 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4758 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4759 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4761 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4762 recipients, not senders.
4764 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4765 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4767 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4769 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4771 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4772 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4773 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4774 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4776 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4778 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4779 clock is set back in time.
4781 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4782 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4784 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4785 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4787 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4788 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4791 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4792 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4795 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4798 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4800 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4801 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4802 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4804 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4805 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4806 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4807 helo verification defer as a failure.
4809 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4810 actual error message.
4816 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4818 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4819 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4820 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4821 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4823 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4825 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4826 can still be requested.
4828 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4829 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4830 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4831 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4833 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4834 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4835 circumstances, but probably never did.
4837 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4838 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4839 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4842 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4844 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4845 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4847 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4849 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4851 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4852 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4853 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4854 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4855 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4856 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4858 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4859 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4860 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4861 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4862 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4863 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4865 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4866 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4868 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4869 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4871 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4872 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4874 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4876 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4878 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4880 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4882 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4884 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4886 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4888 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4889 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4890 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4892 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4893 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4894 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4895 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4897 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4898 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4899 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4901 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4902 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4903 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4904 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4906 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4907 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4910 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4911 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4912 should work with maildirs and everything.
4914 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4915 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4917 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4920 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4921 function for BDB 4.3.
4923 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4925 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4926 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4929 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4930 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4931 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4932 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4933 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4934 formatting function string_vformat().
4936 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4937 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4938 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4939 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4940 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4941 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4942 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4943 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4945 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4946 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4949 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4950 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4952 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4953 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4954 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4955 test. It is now used for both.
4957 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4958 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4959 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4960 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4961 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4962 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4964 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4965 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4966 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4969 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4970 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4971 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4973 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4974 experimental DomainKeys support:
4976 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4977 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4978 the control was given.
4980 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4982 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4984 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4986 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4987 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4988 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4991 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4992 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4993 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4994 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4995 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4996 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4999 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5000 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5001 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5002 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5003 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5004 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5006 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5007 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5008 do -d+all out of habit.
5010 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5011 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5014 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5015 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5016 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5017 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5018 record types that Exim uses.
5020 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5021 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5022 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5023 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5024 non-existent file that was broken.
5026 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5027 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5029 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5030 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5031 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5033 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5035 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5036 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5037 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5038 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5039 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5042 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5043 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5044 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5045 at a slight CPU cost.
5047 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5048 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5050 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5053 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5055 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5056 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5062 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5063 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5065 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5067 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5069 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5070 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5072 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5073 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5074 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5075 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5076 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5077 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5080 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5081 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5082 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5083 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5086 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5087 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5088 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5089 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5090 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5091 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5092 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5095 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5096 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5098 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5099 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5100 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5101 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5102 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5103 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5105 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5106 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5107 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5108 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5110 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5113 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5114 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5116 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5117 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5118 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5119 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5122 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5124 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5125 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5127 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5128 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5129 to what was transported.)
5131 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5133 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5134 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5135 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5136 spamd_address settings.
5138 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5139 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5140 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5141 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5142 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5144 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5146 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5147 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5148 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5149 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5150 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5152 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5153 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5155 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5156 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5157 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5158 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5159 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5160 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5161 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5164 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5165 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5166 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5167 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5168 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5169 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5170 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5173 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5175 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5176 driver and ACL definitions.
5178 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5179 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5181 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5182 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5183 understands it better than I do:
5185 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5186 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5188 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5189 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5190 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5191 => three warnings about OTP not working
5192 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5194 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5195 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5196 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5197 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5199 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5200 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5202 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5203 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5204 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5206 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5207 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5210 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5211 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5214 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5215 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5216 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5218 warn !verify = sender
5219 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5221 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5222 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5224 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5226 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5227 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5229 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5230 nomenclature these days.)
5232 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5233 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5235 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5236 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5237 . First host does not offer TLS;
5238 . First host accepts first address;
5239 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5240 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5241 . Second host accepts second address.
5242 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5243 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5246 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5247 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5248 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5249 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5250 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5252 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5253 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5255 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5256 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5258 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5259 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5260 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5262 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5263 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5266 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5268 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5269 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5270 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5271 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5272 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5273 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5274 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5276 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5277 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5278 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5279 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5280 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5282 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5283 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5286 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5287 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5288 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5289 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5290 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5291 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5293 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5295 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5296 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5297 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5298 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5299 printable escape sequences.
5301 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5302 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5305 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5306 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5309 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5310 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5311 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5312 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5313 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5315 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5316 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5317 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5319 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5321 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5322 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5325 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5326 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5327 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5328 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5329 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5330 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5331 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5332 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5333 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5336 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5337 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5338 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5339 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5343 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5344 ----------------------------------------
5346 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5347 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5348 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5349 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5350 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5351 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5354 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5355 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5356 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5357 historical information.
5363 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5365 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5366 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5368 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5369 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5372 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5373 filter fails to execute.
5375 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5376 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5377 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5378 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5379 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5381 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5383 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5384 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5385 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5386 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5388 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5389 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5390 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5391 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5392 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5394 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5396 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5398 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5399 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5400 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5401 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5403 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5404 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5405 sender verification.
5407 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5408 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5410 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5412 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5415 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5416 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5418 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5419 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5421 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5422 information about exactly what failed.
5424 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5426 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5427 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5428 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5430 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5431 It is now set to "smtps".
5433 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5434 ignore_target_hosts.
5436 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5437 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5438 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5439 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5442 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5443 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5444 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5446 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5447 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5448 wake it up if nothing else does.
5450 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5451 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5452 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5455 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5456 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5458 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5460 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5461 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5462 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5463 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5464 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5465 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5466 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5467 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5469 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5470 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5471 than one IP address.
5473 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5474 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5475 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5476 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5478 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5479 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5480 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5481 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5482 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5485 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5486 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5487 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5488 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5490 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5491 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5494 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5495 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5496 $sender_host_address.
5498 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5499 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5500 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5501 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5502 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5505 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5507 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5508 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5510 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5511 just the host names, not the priorities.
5513 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5514 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5515 controlled by a keyword.
5517 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5518 multiple records are returned.
5520 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5521 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5524 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5526 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5527 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5529 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5530 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5531 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5533 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5535 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5537 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5539 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5540 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5541 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5542 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5543 because the tests only now provoked it.
5545 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5546 (this can affect the format of dates).
5548 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5549 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5550 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5551 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5553 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5555 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5556 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5557 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5558 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5560 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5561 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5562 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5564 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5567 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5568 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5569 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5570 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5571 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5572 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5575 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5576 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5577 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5580 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5581 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5582 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5584 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5585 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5586 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5587 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5588 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5589 so I produce this patch..."
5591 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5592 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5595 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5596 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5597 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5598 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5601 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5603 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5604 long debug lines gets shown.
5606 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5607 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5609 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5611 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5612 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5613 of $primary_hostname.
5615 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5616 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5617 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5618 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5619 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5620 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5621 by change 4.50/55 above.
5623 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5624 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5625 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5626 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5627 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5628 running as the user.
5631 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5632 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5633 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5636 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5637 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5639 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5640 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5641 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5642 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5643 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5645 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5646 This has been fixed.
5648 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5649 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5650 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5651 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5654 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5656 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5657 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5658 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5659 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5661 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5662 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5664 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5665 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5666 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5668 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5669 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5670 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5673 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5674 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5675 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5677 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5678 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5679 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5680 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5682 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5683 during host lookups.
5685 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5686 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5688 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5690 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5691 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5692 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5693 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5694 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5697 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5698 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5700 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5701 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5702 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5704 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5706 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5707 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5708 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5709 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5710 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5711 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5714 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5715 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5716 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5717 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5718 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5720 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5723 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5725 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5726 "vacation" handling.
5728 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5729 OS variants using glibc.
5731 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5734 ----------------------------------------------------
5735 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5736 ----------------------------------------------------
5742 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5743 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5746 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5747 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5750 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5751 filter fails to execute.
5753 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5754 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5755 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5756 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5757 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5759 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5760 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5761 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5762 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5764 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5765 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5766 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5767 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5768 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5770 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5772 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5773 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5774 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5775 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5777 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5778 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5779 sender verification.
5781 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5782 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5784 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5785 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5787 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5788 ignore_target_hosts.
5790 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5791 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5792 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5793 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5796 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5797 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5798 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5800 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5801 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5802 wake it up if nothing else does.
5804 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5805 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5806 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5809 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5810 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5812 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5814 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5815 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5818 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5819 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5822 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5823 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5824 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5825 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5826 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5829 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5830 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5833 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5834 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5835 $sender_host_address.
5837 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5839 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5840 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5841 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5843 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5846 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5847 (this can affect the format of dates).
5849 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5850 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5851 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5852 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5854 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5855 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5856 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5858 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5859 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5860 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5861 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5863 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5864 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5865 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5867 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5870 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5871 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5872 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5873 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5874 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5875 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5878 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5879 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5880 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5881 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5884 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5885 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5886 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5887 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5888 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5889 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5890 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5892 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5893 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5894 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5895 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5896 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5897 running as the user.
5900 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5901 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5902 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5905 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5906 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5907 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5908 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5909 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5911 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5912 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5913 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5914 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5917 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5918 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5919 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5920 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5921 because the tests only now provoked it.
5927 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5928 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5929 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5930 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5931 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5932 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5933 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5935 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5936 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5939 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5941 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5943 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5944 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5947 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5948 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5949 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5950 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5951 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5953 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5954 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5956 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5958 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5960 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5963 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5964 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5966 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5967 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5968 affecting debugging statements).
5970 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5972 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5973 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5974 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5975 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5976 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5977 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5978 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5979 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5980 after the received time, and all would be well.
5982 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5983 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5984 condition in an expansion string.
5986 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5988 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5989 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5990 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5991 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5992 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5993 job under whatever limits there are.
5995 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5997 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6000 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6001 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6002 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6003 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6006 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6007 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6008 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6009 binary data in such strings.
6011 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6013 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6014 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6015 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6016 failure, which is pointless.
6018 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6020 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6022 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6023 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6024 Sender: header lines.
6026 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6027 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6028 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6030 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6031 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6032 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6033 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6034 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6037 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6038 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6039 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6040 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6041 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6043 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6044 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6045 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6048 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6049 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6051 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6052 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6054 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6056 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6058 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6060 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6063 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6065 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6067 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6068 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6069 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6070 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6072 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6073 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6079 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6080 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6081 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6083 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6084 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6085 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6086 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6087 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6088 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6090 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6091 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6092 verification failure".
6094 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6095 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6096 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6097 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6099 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6100 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6101 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6102 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6103 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6104 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6105 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6106 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6107 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6108 treated as a timeout.
6110 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6111 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6112 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6113 not set for Exim filters).
6115 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6116 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6117 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6119 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6121 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6122 try to make them clearer.
6124 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6125 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6127 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6129 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6131 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6132 only the Cygwin environment.
6134 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6135 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6136 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6137 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6138 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6140 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6141 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6142 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6143 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6144 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6145 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6146 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6148 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6149 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6151 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6153 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6154 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6155 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6157 To: susanne@some.where
6159 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6160 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6161 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6162 of addresses in From: header lines).
6164 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6165 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6166 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6168 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6169 treated as non-personal.
6171 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6172 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6174 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6176 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6178 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6179 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6180 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6182 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6183 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6185 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6186 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6187 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6188 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6189 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6190 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6192 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6193 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6194 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6195 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6196 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6197 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6198 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6199 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6201 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6203 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6204 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6206 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6207 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6208 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6210 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6211 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6213 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6214 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6215 rather than long int.
6217 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6219 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6225 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6226 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6227 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6228 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6229 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6230 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6236 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6237 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6239 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6240 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6241 socklen_t is defined.
6243 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6246 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6249 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6250 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6251 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6252 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6253 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6255 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6256 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6257 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6258 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6260 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6261 of flapping under certain conditions.
6263 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6264 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6265 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6267 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6269 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6271 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6272 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6273 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6274 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6276 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6277 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6278 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6279 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6280 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6281 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6282 preserved with the message after it was received.
6284 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6285 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6286 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6287 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6288 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6289 test suite worked just fine.
6291 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6292 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6293 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6295 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6296 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6299 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6300 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6301 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6302 does not fully solve it.
6304 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6305 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6306 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6307 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6308 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6310 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6311 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6312 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6314 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6315 string, for example:
6317 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6319 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6320 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6321 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6322 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6323 the routers could not see them.
6325 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6326 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6328 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6329 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6332 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6333 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6334 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6335 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6336 that needed quoting.
6338 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6339 was not being matched caselessly.
6341 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6344 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6345 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6346 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6347 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6348 when use_sender is false.
6350 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6352 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6354 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6356 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6357 the configuration file.
6359 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6360 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6362 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6364 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6365 bytes in the message body.
6367 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6368 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6371 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6373 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6375 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6376 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6377 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6378 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6385 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6386 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6388 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6389 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6390 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6391 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6392 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6394 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6395 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6397 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6398 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6399 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6401 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6402 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6403 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6405 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6408 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6409 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6410 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6411 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6412 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6413 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6414 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6420 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6421 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6422 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6423 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6424 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6425 default (and expected) setting.
6427 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6428 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6429 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6430 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6432 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6433 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6435 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6438 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6439 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6440 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6441 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6442 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6443 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6445 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6446 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6447 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6449 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6450 part (NOT match_host).
6452 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6454 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6455 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6456 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6457 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6458 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6459 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6460 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6461 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6462 the same named file.
6464 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6465 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6468 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6469 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6470 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6471 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6474 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6475 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6476 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6478 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6480 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6482 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6484 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6485 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6487 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6488 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6489 before starting the TLS session.
6491 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6493 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6494 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6496 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6497 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6498 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6499 colon in the middle).
6505 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6506 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6507 multiple configurations are in use.
6509 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6510 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6511 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6512 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6513 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6514 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6516 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6517 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6519 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6520 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6521 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6523 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6524 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6527 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6528 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6530 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6532 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6533 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6535 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6543 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6544 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6545 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6546 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6547 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6549 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6552 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6553 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6554 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6555 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6556 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6557 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6559 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6560 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6561 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6562 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6563 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6564 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6565 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6568 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6569 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6570 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6571 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6572 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6574 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6576 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6577 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6578 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6580 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6582 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6583 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6584 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6587 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6588 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6590 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6591 Three changes have been made:
6593 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6594 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6595 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6596 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6597 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6599 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6602 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6603 the modified behaviour.
6609 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6612 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6613 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6615 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6616 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6617 try to track down a specific problem.
6619 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6620 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6621 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6623 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6626 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6627 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6628 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6629 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6630 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6631 some earlier ones do not.
6633 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6635 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6636 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6637 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6638 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6639 address literals are enabled, of course).
6641 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6643 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6644 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6645 by a command such as
6649 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6651 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6653 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6654 remained set. It is now erased.
6656 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6657 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6659 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6660 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6661 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6662 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6663 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6664 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6665 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6666 appropriate error code.
6668 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6669 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6670 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6671 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6672 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6673 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6675 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6676 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6677 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6679 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6680 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6681 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6682 terminate the header.
6684 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6685 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6686 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6688 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6689 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6690 (4.30/29). In particular:
6692 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6695 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6696 to write a maildirsize file.
6698 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6699 the transport, the new value overrides.
6701 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6704 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6705 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6706 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6709 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6710 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6711 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6714 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6715 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6716 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6718 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6719 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6722 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6723 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6724 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6726 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6728 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6730 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6732 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6733 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6736 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6737 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6738 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6739 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6740 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6741 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6742 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6745 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6746 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6747 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6748 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6749 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6752 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6753 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6754 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6755 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6756 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6757 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6758 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6759 cached value only when the same options are set.
6761 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6763 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6764 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6765 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6766 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6767 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6769 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6770 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6771 it is clearly obsolete.
6773 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6776 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6777 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6778 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6781 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6782 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6783 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6784 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6785 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6787 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6788 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6789 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6790 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6792 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6794 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6796 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6797 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6800 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6801 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6802 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6803 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6804 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6805 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6808 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6809 with the -f command-line option.
6811 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6812 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6813 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6814 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6815 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6816 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6818 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6819 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6822 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6823 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6824 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6825 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6826 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6827 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6828 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6829 buffer is too small.
6831 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6832 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6834 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6835 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6836 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6837 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6838 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6839 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6840 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6841 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6842 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6844 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6845 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6846 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6848 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6849 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6852 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6853 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6854 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6855 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6856 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6858 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6859 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6860 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6861 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6864 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6866 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6868 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6869 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6871 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6872 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6873 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6875 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6876 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6877 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6878 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6879 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6881 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6882 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6883 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6884 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6885 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6886 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6887 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6889 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6890 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6891 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6892 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6893 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6894 the test of how many are available.
6896 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6897 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6898 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6899 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6900 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6901 new message is started.
6903 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6904 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6906 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6907 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6909 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6910 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6911 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6914 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6915 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6916 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6917 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6918 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6919 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6920 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6922 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6923 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6924 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6925 interpreted as octal.
6927 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6930 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6931 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6932 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6933 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6934 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6935 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6937 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6938 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6939 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6940 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6942 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6943 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6944 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6945 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6947 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6948 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6951 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6952 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6954 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6956 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6957 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6958 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6959 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6961 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6962 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6963 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6964 supplied", which is not helpful.
6966 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6967 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6968 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6970 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6971 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6972 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6973 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6974 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6975 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6976 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6977 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6979 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6980 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6981 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6982 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6983 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6985 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6986 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6987 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6988 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6989 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6990 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6992 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6993 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6994 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6996 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6998 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6999 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7000 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7003 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7005 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7006 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7007 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7008 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7009 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7010 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7011 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7012 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7014 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7015 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7016 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7017 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7018 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7020 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7023 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7024 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7025 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7026 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7027 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7028 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7029 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7030 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7031 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7037 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7038 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7039 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7041 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7044 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7045 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7046 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7048 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7049 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7050 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7051 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7052 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7053 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7055 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7056 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7057 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7058 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7059 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7060 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7061 the Exim test suite.
7063 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7064 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7065 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7066 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7068 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7069 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7070 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7071 specify it in this variable.
7073 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7074 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7075 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7076 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7078 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7079 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7080 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7081 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7083 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7084 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7085 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7086 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7087 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7089 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7091 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7094 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7095 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7096 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7097 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7098 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7100 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7101 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7103 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7104 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7105 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7106 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7107 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7109 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7110 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7112 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7113 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7114 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7116 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7117 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7119 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7120 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7122 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7123 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7124 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7126 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7127 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7129 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7130 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7131 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7132 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7134 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7136 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7137 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7138 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7139 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7141 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7143 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7144 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7146 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7148 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7149 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7150 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7151 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7152 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7153 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7155 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7157 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7158 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7161 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7163 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7164 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7166 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7167 550 Sender verify failed
7169 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7170 the final line of the response.
7172 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7173 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7174 all other user lookups.
7176 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7179 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7180 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7181 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7182 result into an int without checking.
7184 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7185 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7186 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7188 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7189 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7190 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7191 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7193 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7196 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7197 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7199 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7200 to the empty sender.
7202 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7203 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7204 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7205 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7206 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7207 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7208 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7211 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7212 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7213 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7214 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7217 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7218 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7220 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7223 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7224 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7226 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7228 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7229 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7232 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7233 as soon as it is encountered.
7235 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7237 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7240 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7241 recognizes a tab character.
7243 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7244 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7245 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7246 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7248 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7250 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7253 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7255 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7257 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7258 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7261 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7262 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7263 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7264 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7265 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7267 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7268 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7270 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7271 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7272 list (.included file names were always shown).
7274 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7275 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7276 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7279 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7280 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7282 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7284 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7286 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7288 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7289 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7290 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7291 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7292 failures to open the logs.
7294 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7295 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7296 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7297 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7298 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7299 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7300 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7306 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7307 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7308 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7311 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7312 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7313 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7315 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7316 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7317 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7319 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7320 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7321 causing some misleading effects.
7323 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7324 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7325 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7327 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7328 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7329 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7330 queue-runner function directly.
7336 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7339 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7340 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7341 was always written to the default place.
7343 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7344 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7345 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7347 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7349 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7351 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7352 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7353 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7355 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7356 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7359 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7360 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7361 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7363 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7364 command line option is disabled.
7366 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7367 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7369 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7371 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7373 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7374 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7376 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7378 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7379 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7380 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7381 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7382 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7383 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7385 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7386 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7389 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7390 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7392 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7393 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7395 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7396 received was valid base64.
7398 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7399 name of the variable that was being set.
7401 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7403 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7404 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7405 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7406 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7407 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7408 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7410 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7412 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7413 nor realm was specified.
7415 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7416 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7417 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7418 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7420 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7421 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7422 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7424 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7425 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7426 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7428 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7429 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7430 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7431 some systems use these upper case variants.
7433 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7434 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7435 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7436 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7438 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7440 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7441 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7443 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7444 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7447 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7449 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7450 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7451 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7452 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7454 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7457 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7458 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7459 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7461 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7462 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7464 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7465 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7466 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7467 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7469 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7470 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7471 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7473 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7475 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7476 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7477 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7478 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7481 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7482 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7483 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7485 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7487 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7488 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7490 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7491 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7493 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7494 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7495 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7496 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7497 when emails are that large.
7504 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7505 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7507 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7508 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7509 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7511 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7512 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7513 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7515 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7516 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7517 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7518 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7519 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7521 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7522 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7523 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7524 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7525 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7528 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7529 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7530 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7531 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7532 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7533 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7534 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7535 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7536 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7537 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7538 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7539 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7540 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7541 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7543 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7544 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7547 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7548 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7549 error should be diagnosed.
7551 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7552 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7553 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7554 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7555 appeared instead of "NULL".
7557 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7558 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7559 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7560 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7561 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7562 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7565 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7566 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7567 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7573 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7574 or receiver verification errors.
7576 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7579 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7580 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7581 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7582 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7584 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7585 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7586 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7587 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7588 shouldn't happen again.
7590 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7591 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7592 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7594 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7595 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7597 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7599 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7600 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7602 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7603 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7606 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7607 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7608 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7610 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7611 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7612 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7613 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7615 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7616 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7617 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7618 to define what should happen).
7620 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7621 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7622 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7624 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7626 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7628 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7629 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7631 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7632 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7633 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7634 structure in all cases.
7636 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7637 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7638 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7639 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7641 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7642 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7645 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7646 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7648 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7649 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7651 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7652 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7653 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7655 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7656 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7657 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7659 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7660 the book and for uniformity.
7662 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7664 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7665 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7666 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7667 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7668 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7669 non-existent command as the problem.
7671 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7672 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7673 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7675 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7677 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7678 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7679 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7681 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7682 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7683 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7684 timestamps using strftime().
7686 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7687 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7689 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7690 transport-time rewrites.
7692 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7693 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7694 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7695 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7697 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7698 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7700 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7701 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7702 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7703 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7706 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7707 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7708 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7709 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7710 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7711 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7712 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7714 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7715 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7716 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7717 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7718 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7720 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7721 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7722 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7723 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7724 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7725 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7726 remaining text gets split now.
7728 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7729 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7730 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7731 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7733 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7734 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7735 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7736 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7739 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7740 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7741 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7742 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7743 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7744 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7745 passed through if needed.
7747 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7748 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7749 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7750 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7751 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7752 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7754 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7755 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7756 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7757 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7758 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7760 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7761 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7762 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7763 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7764 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7766 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7767 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7770 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7771 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7772 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7773 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7774 mayhem of various kinds.
7776 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7777 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7778 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7779 the right test for positive values.
7781 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7782 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7783 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7784 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7785 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7786 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7787 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7788 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7789 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7790 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7793 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7796 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7797 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7800 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7801 the existing equality matching.
7803 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7804 dealing with inode numbers.
7806 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7807 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7808 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7810 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7811 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7812 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7813 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7816 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7817 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7818 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7819 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7820 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7821 relay addresses has also been removed.
7823 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7825 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7826 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7827 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7829 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7830 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7831 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7832 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7833 processing applies to CR:
7835 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7836 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7838 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7839 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7840 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7841 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7843 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7844 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7845 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7847 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7848 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7849 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7850 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7851 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7852 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7855 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7858 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7859 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7860 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7861 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7864 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7866 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7868 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7870 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7871 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7872 not considered personal.
7874 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7876 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7878 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7880 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7881 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7882 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7883 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7884 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7885 header lines, and spool format errors.
7887 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7888 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7889 for more flexibility.
7891 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7892 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7893 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7895 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7898 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7899 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7900 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7901 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7902 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7903 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7904 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7905 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7906 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7908 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7909 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7910 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7911 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7912 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7913 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7914 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7916 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7917 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7918 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7920 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7921 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7922 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7923 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7924 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7925 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7926 instead of killing the process with assert().
7928 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7929 than Unicode encoding.
7931 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7932 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7933 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7934 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7936 77. Added process_log_path.
7938 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7939 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7941 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7942 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7944 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7945 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7946 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7948 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7949 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7950 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7951 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7952 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7955 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7956 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7959 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7960 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7961 they will be used during message reception.
7967 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.