1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
11 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
12 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
13 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
14 pairs of long lines into single ones.
16 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
17 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
19 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
20 This permits better logging.
22 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
23 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
24 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
25 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
26 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
27 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
29 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
30 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
33 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
34 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
35 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
37 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
38 than 255 are no longer allowed.
40 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
41 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
42 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
43 client, there is no benefit for these.
44 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
45 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
46 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
49 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
50 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
52 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
53 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
54 erroneously found still-pending ones.
56 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
57 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
63 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
64 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
66 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
68 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
69 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
71 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
72 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
74 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
75 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
76 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
77 before acknowledging the chunk.
79 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
80 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
81 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
83 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
84 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
85 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
88 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
89 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
90 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
92 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
93 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
95 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
96 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
97 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
98 body hash calculated value.
100 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
101 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
102 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
104 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
106 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
107 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
109 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
110 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
111 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
113 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
114 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
115 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
116 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
117 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
118 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
120 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
121 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
122 past that check, despite the cost.
124 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
125 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
126 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
128 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
129 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
130 TLS library to consume.
132 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
134 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
136 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
137 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
138 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
139 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
140 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
141 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
142 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
144 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
146 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
148 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
149 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
150 should be warning-free.
152 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
154 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
155 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
157 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
158 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
159 general solution here.
161 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
162 already-broken messages in the queue.
164 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
166 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
172 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
173 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
175 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
176 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
177 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
179 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
180 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
181 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
182 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
183 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
184 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
185 if one fails this test.
186 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
187 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
189 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
190 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
192 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
193 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
195 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
196 in rewrites and routers.
198 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
199 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
201 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
202 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
204 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
206 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
209 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
210 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
211 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
212 connection after a verify cache hit.
213 Do not update it with the verify result either.
215 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
216 when routing results in more than one destination address.
218 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
219 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
220 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
221 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
222 when the cutthrough connection is made).
224 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
225 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
227 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
228 Previously they were not counted.
230 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
231 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
232 that needed the lookup.
234 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
235 distinguished as "(=".
237 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
238 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
240 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
242 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
243 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
245 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
246 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
248 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
249 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
252 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
253 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
254 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
255 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
257 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
259 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
260 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
261 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
263 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
264 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
265 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
268 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
269 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
270 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
273 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
274 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
275 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
277 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
278 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
281 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
283 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
284 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
286 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
287 are not in the system include path.
289 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
290 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
291 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
292 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
294 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
295 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
296 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
298 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
300 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
301 an incoming connection.
303 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
306 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
307 fallback to "prime256v1".
309 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
310 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
316 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
317 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
318 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
319 client dropping the TLS connection.
321 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
322 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
324 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
325 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
326 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
327 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
330 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
331 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
332 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
333 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
334 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
335 check on the next write.
337 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
338 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
339 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
340 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
341 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
343 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
344 mime_regex ACL conditions.
346 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
347 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
348 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
350 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
351 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
352 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
353 an authenticate fail is not an error.
355 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
356 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
358 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
359 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
361 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
362 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
363 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
366 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
368 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
370 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
372 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
373 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
375 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
376 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
378 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
380 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
381 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
383 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
385 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
386 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
388 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
390 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
391 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
392 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
393 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
394 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
395 they will retry in-clear.
396 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
397 at installation time.
399 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
400 with the $config_file variable.
402 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
403 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
404 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
405 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
406 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
408 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
409 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
410 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
411 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
412 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
414 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
416 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
417 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
418 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
419 list order is no longer honoured.
421 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
424 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
425 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
427 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
428 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
429 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
430 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
432 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
433 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
435 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
436 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
438 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
439 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
441 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
443 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
444 cached by the daemon.
446 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
447 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
449 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
450 keys are given for lookup.
452 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
453 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
454 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
455 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
457 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
458 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
459 server-side so match that on older versions.
461 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
462 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
463 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
465 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
466 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
468 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
469 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
470 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
471 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
472 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
473 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
474 initial truncated version.
476 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
478 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
480 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
481 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
483 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
485 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
487 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
488 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
491 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
492 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
495 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
496 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
498 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
499 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
502 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
503 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
504 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
506 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
507 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
508 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
509 extraction. Accept either.
515 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
518 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
520 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
523 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
524 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
525 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
526 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
528 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
529 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
530 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
532 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
533 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
534 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
537 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
540 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
541 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
542 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
543 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
544 have a dsn_lasthop option.
546 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
547 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
548 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
550 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
552 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
553 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
555 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
556 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
558 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
561 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
562 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
564 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
565 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
566 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
568 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
569 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
570 specify a port-range.
572 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
573 timeout value per server.
575 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
576 now have the list separator specified.
578 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
581 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
584 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
586 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
587 rather than the verbs used.
589 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
590 from 255 to 1024 chars.
592 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
594 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
595 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
597 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
598 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
600 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
601 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
603 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
605 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
607 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
608 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
609 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
610 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
612 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
614 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
615 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
617 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
618 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
620 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
622 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
624 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
626 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
627 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
629 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
630 added for tls authenticator.
632 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
638 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
639 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
640 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
641 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
642 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
643 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
644 the script parsing/test process like normal.
646 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
647 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
648 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
649 function when detected.
651 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
652 cause callback expansion.
654 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
655 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
656 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
657 instead of bool when processing it.
659 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
660 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
662 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
664 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
666 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
668 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
669 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
671 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
672 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
673 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
674 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
675 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
676 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
678 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
679 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
682 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
683 version 3.3.6 or later.
685 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
686 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
687 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
688 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
689 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
690 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
693 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
694 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
696 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
697 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
698 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
701 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
702 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
703 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
705 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
706 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
708 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
709 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
712 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
714 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
715 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
717 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
718 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
721 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
723 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
726 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
727 output list separator was used.
732 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
733 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
736 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
737 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
739 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
741 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
742 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
748 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
750 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
751 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
752 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
753 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
754 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
755 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
757 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
758 utilities have not been installed.
760 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
761 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
763 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
764 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
766 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
767 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
768 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
769 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
771 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
773 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
774 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
776 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
779 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
781 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
782 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
783 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
785 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
786 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
787 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
788 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
789 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
790 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
792 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
794 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
795 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
797 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
800 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
802 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
804 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
805 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
807 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
808 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
810 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
812 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
814 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
815 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
817 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
818 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
819 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
821 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
822 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
823 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
826 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
828 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
829 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
832 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
833 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
836 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
837 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
839 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
840 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
842 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
844 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
845 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
846 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
848 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
849 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
851 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
852 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
855 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
856 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
857 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
859 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
861 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
862 Christian Aistleitner.
864 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
866 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
867 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
869 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
870 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
872 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
873 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
875 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
876 support and error reporting did not work properly.
878 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
879 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
881 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
882 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
883 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
885 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
887 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
888 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
891 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
893 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
894 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
901 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
903 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
904 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
906 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
909 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
910 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
913 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
915 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
916 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
917 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
918 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
919 using channel bindings instead).
921 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
922 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
923 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
924 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
925 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
928 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
930 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
932 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
933 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
935 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
936 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
937 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
939 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
941 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
943 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
944 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
946 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
948 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
950 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
952 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
953 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
955 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
957 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
958 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
961 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
962 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
964 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
965 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
968 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
970 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
972 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
973 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
975 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
978 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
979 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
981 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
982 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
984 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
986 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
988 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
991 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
994 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
996 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
997 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
998 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
999 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1001 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1003 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1004 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1005 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1006 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1009 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1010 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1011 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1013 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1014 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1015 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1016 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1018 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1019 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1020 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1021 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1022 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1023 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1024 delivery, as in LMTP.
1026 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1027 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1029 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1031 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1035 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1036 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1037 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1038 username as equal to the username.
1040 This change corrects that bug.
1042 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1043 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1044 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1046 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1048 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1049 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1050 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1051 NULL dereference and crash.
1053 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1055 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1056 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1057 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1059 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1061 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1062 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1063 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1064 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1065 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1066 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1067 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1068 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1069 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1070 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1071 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1073 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1074 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1076 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1077 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1080 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1081 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1082 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1083 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1084 an empty string is now equivalent.
1086 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1087 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1088 not performing validation itself.
1090 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1091 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1093 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1096 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1098 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1099 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1100 other false fix of the same issue.
1101 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1104 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1105 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1107 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1108 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1109 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1111 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1112 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1113 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1115 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1117 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1119 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1120 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1122 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1125 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1126 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1127 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1128 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1129 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1131 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1132 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1134 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1135 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1138 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1139 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1140 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1141 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1143 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1145 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1146 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1147 from multiple comments on this bug.
1149 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1151 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1152 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1155 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1156 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1158 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1159 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1165 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1167 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1173 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1174 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1175 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1177 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1179 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1182 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1184 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1186 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1188 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1189 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1191 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1192 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1194 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1195 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1197 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1198 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1199 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1201 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1203 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1204 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1206 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1208 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1210 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1211 non-compliant senders.
1212 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1214 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1215 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1216 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1218 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1219 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1220 in spool file corruption.
1222 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1223 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1224 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1227 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1228 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1229 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1231 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1232 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1234 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1236 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1238 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1240 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
1241 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1242 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1244 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1245 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1246 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1247 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1249 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1250 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1252 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1253 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1254 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1255 resolver implementation change.
1257 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1258 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1260 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1262 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1264 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1265 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1267 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1268 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1270 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1271 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1273 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1274 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1275 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1276 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1277 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1279 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1281 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1282 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1283 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1285 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1287 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1288 read-only, out of scope).
1289 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1291 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1292 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1293 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1294 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1296 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1298 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1299 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1300 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1301 real issues in debug logging.
1303 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1304 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1306 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1307 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1308 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1310 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1311 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1312 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1315 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1316 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1318 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1319 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1320 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1321 needs to override this, it can.
1323 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1324 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1325 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1327 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1328 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1329 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1330 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1332 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1338 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1339 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1341 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1343 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1346 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1347 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1349 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1350 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1351 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1353 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1354 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1355 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1356 not safe for signals.
1358 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1359 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1360 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1361 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1364 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1366 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1367 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1368 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1369 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1370 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1372 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1373 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1374 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1375 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1376 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1377 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1379 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1380 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1381 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1382 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1384 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1385 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1386 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1387 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1389 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1390 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1391 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1392 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1393 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1394 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1395 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1396 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1397 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1399 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1400 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1401 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1402 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1404 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1405 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1406 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1407 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1408 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1409 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1410 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1411 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1412 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1413 details in the main documentation.
1415 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1417 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1419 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1420 repository when doing development or release builds.
1422 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1423 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1425 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1426 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1429 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1431 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1432 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1434 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1435 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1437 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1438 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1440 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1441 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1443 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1444 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1446 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1448 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1451 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1452 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1453 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1455 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1457 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1459 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1460 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1466 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1468 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1469 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1471 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1473 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1475 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1478 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1479 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1481 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1482 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1484 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1485 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1487 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1490 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1491 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1493 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1494 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1495 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1496 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1498 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1499 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
1505 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
1508 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1509 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1510 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1512 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1513 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1515 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1516 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1517 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1519 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1520 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1522 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1523 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1525 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1526 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1528 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1529 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1531 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1532 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
1534 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1537 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1538 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1540 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1541 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1543 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1544 SQL string expansion failure details.
1545 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1547 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1548 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1550 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1551 extern declarations in function scope.
1552 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1554 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1555 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1556 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1559 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1560 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1562 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1563 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1565 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1566 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1568 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1569 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1571 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1572 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1575 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
1577 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1579 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1580 Patch by Simon Arlott
1582 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1583 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1589 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1590 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1592 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1593 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1595 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1597 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1598 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1599 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1601 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1602 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1603 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1605 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1606 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1607 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1608 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1610 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1611 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1612 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1613 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1615 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1616 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1617 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1620 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1623 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1624 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1625 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1626 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1627 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1633 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1634 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1635 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1637 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1638 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1640 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1642 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1644 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1646 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
1648 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1650 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
1651 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1652 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
1653 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1655 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1656 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1657 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
1658 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1659 more caution in buffer sizes.
1661 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1663 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1665 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1667 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1669 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1671 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1673 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1675 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
1676 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1677 ignore trailing whitespace.
1679 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1681 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1684 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1685 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1687 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1688 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1689 Notification from John Horne.
1691 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1694 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1695 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1698 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1701 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1702 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1703 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1705 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1706 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1707 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1710 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1711 option (effectively making it always true).
1713 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1714 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1716 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1717 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1719 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1720 run-time user, instead of root.
1722 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
1723 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1725 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1726 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1729 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1730 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1731 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1733 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1735 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1741 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1742 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1745 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1746 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1749 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1750 Patch from Alain Williams
1752 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1754 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1755 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1757 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1758 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1760 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1762 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1764 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
1765 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
1767 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1769 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1771 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1772 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1773 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1775 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1776 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
1778 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
1779 Patch by Simon Arlott
1781 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
1782 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
1788 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
1790 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1792 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1794 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1796 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1802 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
1803 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
1805 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1806 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
1809 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1810 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
1811 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
1813 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1814 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1816 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1817 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1818 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1819 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1821 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1822 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
1823 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
1825 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1827 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1829 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
1830 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
1832 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
1834 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1835 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1836 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1837 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1839 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
1840 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
1842 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
1844 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
1846 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
1847 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
1849 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1850 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
1852 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1853 that they are available at delivery time.
1855 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1857 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1858 incoming_port log selectors.
1860 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1861 setting expands to an empty string.
1863 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
1864 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1866 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
1867 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
1869 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
1870 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
1872 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1873 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
1875 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1876 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
1878 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
1879 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1881 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1883 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
1884 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1886 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
1887 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
1889 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1891 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
1892 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
1894 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1896 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
1898 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1901 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1902 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1904 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1905 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1907 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1908 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1910 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1911 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1913 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1914 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1916 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1917 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1919 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1920 plus update to original patch.
1922 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
1924 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1925 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
1927 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
1929 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
1931 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
1933 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
1935 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
1936 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
1938 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1939 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
1941 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
1942 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
1944 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1945 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
1947 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
1949 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
1951 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
1953 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
1959 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1960 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1961 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1963 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1964 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1965 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1966 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1967 build errors in sieve.c.
1969 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1970 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1971 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1973 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1975 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1977 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1979 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1985 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1987 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1988 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1989 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1990 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1991 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1992 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1993 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1994 for iplsearch lookups.
1996 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1997 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1998 previously such lookups could never work.
2000 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2001 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2002 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2004 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2007 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2008 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2009 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2010 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2011 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2012 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2014 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2015 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2017 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2018 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2019 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2020 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2021 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2022 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2024 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2027 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2029 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2030 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2033 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2034 by clients under certain conditions.
2036 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2037 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2039 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2041 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2042 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2044 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2046 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2048 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2050 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2051 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2053 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2055 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2056 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2058 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2060 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2062 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2063 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2064 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2065 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2067 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2068 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2069 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2071 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2072 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2074 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2076 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2078 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2080 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2081 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2082 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2088 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2089 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2092 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2093 issue a MAIL command.
2095 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2097 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2099 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2100 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2101 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2102 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2103 item. This has been fixed.
2105 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2106 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2108 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2109 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2111 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2112 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2113 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2115 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2117 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2118 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2119 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2120 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2121 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2123 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2124 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2125 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2127 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2128 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2129 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2130 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2132 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2134 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2136 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2137 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2138 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2139 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2140 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2142 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2144 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2145 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2146 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2149 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2151 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2153 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2155 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2157 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2159 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2160 no_callout_flush is set.
2162 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2163 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2164 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2167 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2169 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2170 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2171 other ACL rejections are.
2173 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2174 with slight modification.
2176 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2177 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2179 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2180 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2183 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2184 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2186 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2188 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2189 expansion side effects.
2191 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2192 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2193 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2196 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2197 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2198 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2200 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2201 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2202 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2203 were accidentally chopped off.
2205 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2206 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2207 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2208 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2209 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2210 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2211 pipelining has not been advertised.
2213 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2215 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2216 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2217 This has been fixed.
2219 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2220 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2221 reported on Solaris.
2223 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2224 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2225 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2226 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2227 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2228 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2229 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2231 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2234 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2236 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2238 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2239 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2240 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2241 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2242 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2243 criteria to be more general.
2245 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2246 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2247 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2248 host_all_ignored option.
2250 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2251 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2252 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2253 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2254 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2255 is what is supposed to happen).
2257 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2258 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2259 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2260 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2261 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2264 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2265 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2266 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2267 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2268 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2269 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2272 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2274 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2275 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2277 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2278 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2280 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2282 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2284 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2285 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2286 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2287 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2288 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2289 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2290 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2291 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2292 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2293 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2294 least in a lot of common cases.
2296 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2297 advertised in response to EHLO.
2303 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2304 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2306 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2307 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2309 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2310 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2311 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2313 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2314 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2315 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2316 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2317 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2323 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2324 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2327 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2328 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2329 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2331 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2332 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2333 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2334 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2335 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2336 rather than extend the field.
2342 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2343 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2344 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2345 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2348 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2349 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2350 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2352 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2353 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2354 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2356 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2357 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2358 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2361 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2362 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2363 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2364 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2365 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2366 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2367 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2368 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2369 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2370 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2371 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2373 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2376 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2377 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2378 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2379 ignores EPIPE as well.
2381 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2382 (quoted-printable decoding).
2384 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2385 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2387 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2389 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2391 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2393 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2394 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2396 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2399 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2400 miscellaneous code fixes
2402 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2405 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2406 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2407 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2408 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2409 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2410 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2411 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2412 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2414 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2415 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2416 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2417 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2419 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2420 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2421 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2422 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2423 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2424 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2425 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2426 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2427 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2429 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2432 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2433 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2434 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2435 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2436 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2437 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2438 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2439 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2441 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2442 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2445 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2446 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2447 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2448 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2449 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2450 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2451 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2452 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2453 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2454 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2455 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2456 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2457 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2459 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2460 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2461 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2462 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2463 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2464 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2465 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2467 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2468 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2469 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2470 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2471 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2472 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2473 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2474 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2475 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2476 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2478 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2479 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2480 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2481 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2482 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2484 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2485 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2486 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2487 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2488 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2489 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2490 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2492 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2493 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2494 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2495 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2496 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2497 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2500 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
2501 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2502 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2505 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2506 if any retry times were supplied.
2508 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2509 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2510 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2512 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2514 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2516 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2517 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2518 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2519 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
2520 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2521 before) are ignored.
2523 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2524 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2526 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2527 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2528 committing the later change.]
2530 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2531 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2532 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2533 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2534 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2535 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2536 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2537 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2538 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2540 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2541 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2542 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2543 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2544 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2545 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2546 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2547 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2548 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2550 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2551 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2552 hammering the server.
2554 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2555 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2557 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2559 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2560 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2561 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2563 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2564 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2565 one case where this was not true.
2567 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2568 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2569 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2570 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2573 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2574 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2575 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2576 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2577 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2578 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2579 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2580 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2581 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2584 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2585 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2586 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2587 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2589 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2590 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2592 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2593 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2594 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2596 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2598 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2600 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2602 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2603 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2604 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2605 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2607 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2608 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2610 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2611 be meaningful with "accept".
2613 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2614 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2616 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2617 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2618 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2620 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2621 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2622 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2623 there is data to show.
2624 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2626 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2627 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2628 as well as the number of messages.
2630 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2631 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2632 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2634 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2635 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2636 have a flag are now skipped.
2638 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2639 Added the -emptyok flag.
2641 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2642 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2644 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2645 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2646 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2648 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2651 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2652 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2654 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2656 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2657 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2659 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2661 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2662 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2663 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2664 contravention of the specifications.
2666 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2667 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2668 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
2670 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2671 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2672 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2674 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2676 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2677 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2678 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2679 some point in the past.
2681 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2682 transport during callout processing was broken.
2684 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2685 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2687 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2688 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2690 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2691 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2693 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2699 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2700 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2702 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2703 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2704 there is data to show.
2705 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2707 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2708 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2710 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2711 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
2713 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2714 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
2716 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2717 submissions from trusted users.
2719 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2720 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2722 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2723 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2724 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2725 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2726 there is now a framework to start from.
2728 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2729 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2730 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2732 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2734 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2736 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2738 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2739 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2740 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2742 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2745 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2746 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2747 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2749 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2750 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2751 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2754 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2755 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2756 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2757 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2758 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2760 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2761 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2763 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2765 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2766 operations in malware.c.
2768 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2771 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2772 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2773 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2776 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2777 statements to "add_header".
2779 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2780 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2782 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2783 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2786 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
2790 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2791 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2792 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
2795 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2796 don't think Precedence: ever was.
2798 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2799 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2801 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2802 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2803 any possible encoding problems.
2805 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2806 but not after initializing Perl.
2808 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2809 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2810 apparently, which is not desirable.
2812 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2815 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2818 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2820 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2821 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2822 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2823 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2825 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2826 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2827 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2829 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2830 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2831 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2834 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2835 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2836 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2837 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2838 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2844 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2845 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2847 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2850 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2851 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2852 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2853 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2854 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2855 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2856 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2857 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2860 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2862 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2863 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2864 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2866 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2867 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2868 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2871 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2872 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2874 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2875 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2876 option (which defaults to 0600).
2878 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2880 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2881 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2882 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2883 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2884 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2885 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2886 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2888 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2894 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2895 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2896 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2897 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2898 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2899 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2902 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2903 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2905 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2907 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2908 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2909 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2910 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2911 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2914 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2915 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2917 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2918 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2919 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2920 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2921 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2923 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2924 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2925 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2926 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2928 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2929 be the same on different OS.
2931 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2934 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2935 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2937 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2940 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2941 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2942 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2943 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2944 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2945 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2948 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2949 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2950 when Exim was called.
2952 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2953 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2955 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2956 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2957 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2958 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2960 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2961 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2962 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2963 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2966 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2967 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2968 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
2970 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2971 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2972 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2974 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2977 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2978 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2979 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2980 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2981 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2982 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2983 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2984 values from the SRV records were lost.
2986 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2987 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2988 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2990 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2991 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2992 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2994 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2995 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2996 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2997 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2998 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2999 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3000 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3001 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3002 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3003 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3005 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3006 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3007 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3009 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3010 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3012 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3013 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3014 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3015 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3018 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3019 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3020 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3022 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3023 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3024 PH/23 above applies.
3026 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3027 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3028 (for which there is an explicit test).
3030 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3032 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3033 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3034 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3035 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3036 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3038 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3039 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3040 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3041 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3043 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3044 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3045 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3047 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3049 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3051 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3052 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3053 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3055 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3056 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3057 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3058 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3059 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3061 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3062 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3063 the message gets confusing).
3065 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3066 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3067 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3068 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3070 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3071 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3072 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3073 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3076 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3077 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3078 the different processes.
3080 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3082 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3084 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3085 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3087 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3088 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3090 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3091 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3092 messages matching specified criteria.
3094 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3096 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3097 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3099 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3100 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3101 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3102 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3103 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3104 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3105 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3106 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3107 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3108 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3110 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3111 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3112 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3114 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3116 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3117 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3118 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3119 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3120 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3121 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3122 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3125 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3126 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3128 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3130 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3132 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3134 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3135 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3136 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3137 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3138 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3139 size of the count of files.
3141 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3143 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3146 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3147 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3148 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3149 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3151 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3152 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3153 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3155 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3156 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3157 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3158 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3159 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3161 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3162 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3164 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3165 will now be deprecated.
3167 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3169 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3170 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3171 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3173 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3174 with very large, slow to parse queues
3176 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3178 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3180 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3181 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3182 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3185 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3186 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3187 Sieve code now uses this.
3189 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3190 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3192 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3193 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3195 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3197 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3198 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3199 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3200 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3201 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3203 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3204 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3205 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3206 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3208 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3210 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3212 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3213 is preferred over IPv4.
3215 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3216 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3217 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3218 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3219 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3220 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3221 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3223 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3224 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3225 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3227 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3229 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3230 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3231 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3232 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3233 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3234 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3235 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3236 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3237 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3238 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3239 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3241 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3242 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3243 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3249 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3251 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3252 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3254 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3255 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3256 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3258 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3260 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3263 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3266 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3267 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3268 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3271 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3272 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3274 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3275 inside the third argument.
3277 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3278 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3281 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3282 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3284 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3285 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3287 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3289 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3290 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3293 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3295 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3296 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3297 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3298 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3299 identical. For example:
3301 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3303 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3304 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3305 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3307 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3308 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3309 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3310 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3312 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3313 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3314 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3317 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3319 o fixes some comments
3320 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3321 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3322 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3323 and documents the missing references header update
3327 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3328 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
3331 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3332 Electronic Mail") by including:
3334 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3336 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3337 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
3338 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3339 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3340 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3342 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3344 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3346 The auto-replied keyword:
3348 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3349 message by an automatic process,
3351 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3353 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3354 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3356 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3357 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3360 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3361 to the default Received: header definition.
3363 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3365 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3366 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3367 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3369 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3370 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3371 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3373 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3374 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3375 and treats the condition as false.
3377 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3379 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3380 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3381 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3382 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3383 not changing the active code.
3385 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3386 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3388 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3389 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3391 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3394 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3395 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3396 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3397 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3398 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3399 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3400 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3401 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3402 the text comparison.
3404 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3405 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3406 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3407 The same fix has been applied.
3413 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3414 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3417 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3418 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3420 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3422 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3423 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3424 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3425 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3426 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3428 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3429 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3430 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3431 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3434 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3442 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3443 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3445 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3447 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3449 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3450 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3451 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3453 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3454 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3455 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3457 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3458 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3461 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3462 ${stat: expansion item.
3464 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3465 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3467 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3468 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3471 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3473 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3476 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3477 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3479 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3481 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3482 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3483 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3484 the end of the subprocess.
3486 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3487 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3488 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3489 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3490 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3492 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3494 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3496 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3497 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3499 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3501 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3503 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3504 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3507 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3509 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3510 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3511 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3513 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3514 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3516 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3517 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3519 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3520 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3522 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3523 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3525 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3526 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3527 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3528 contributed by a Radius user.
3530 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3531 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3533 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3534 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3536 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3539 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3540 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3543 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3544 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3545 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3546 header lines when this was not necessary.
3548 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3550 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3551 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3552 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3555 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3558 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3559 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
3560 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3561 return code was incorrect.
3563 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3565 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3567 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3569 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3571 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3572 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3573 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3574 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3575 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3578 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3580 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3581 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3582 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3583 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3584 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3585 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3586 which is clearly wrong.
3588 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3590 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3591 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3592 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3595 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3596 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3598 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3600 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3601 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3603 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3604 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3606 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3607 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3609 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3610 recipients, not senders.
3612 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3613 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3615 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3617 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3619 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3620 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3621 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3622 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3624 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3626 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3627 clock is set back in time.
3629 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3630 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3632 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3633 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3635 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3636 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3639 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3640 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3643 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3646 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3648 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3649 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3650 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3652 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3653 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3654 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3655 helo verification defer as a failure.
3657 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3658 actual error message.
3664 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3666 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3667 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3668 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3669 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3671 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3673 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3674 can still be requested.
3676 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3677 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3678 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3679 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3681 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3682 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3683 circumstances, but probably never did.
3685 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3686 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3687 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3690 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3692 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3693 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
3695 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3697 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3699 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3700 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3701 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3702 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
3703 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3704 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
3706 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3707 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3708 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3709 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3710 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3711 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3713 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3714 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3716 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3717 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3719 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3720 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3722 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
3724 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3726 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3728 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3730 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3732 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3734 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3736 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3737 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3738 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3740 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3741 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3742 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3743 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3745 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3746 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3747 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3749 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3750 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3751 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3752 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3754 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3755 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3758 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3759 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3760 should work with maildirs and everything.
3762 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3763 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3765 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3768 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3769 function for BDB 4.3.
3771 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3773 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3774 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3777 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3778 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3779 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
3780 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3781 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3782 formatting function string_vformat().
3784 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3785 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3786 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3787 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3788 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3789 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3790 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3791 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3793 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3794 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3797 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3798 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3800 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3801 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3802 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3803 test. It is now used for both.
3805 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3806 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3807 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3808 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3809 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3810 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3812 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3813 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3814 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3817 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3818 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3819 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
3821 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3822 experimental DomainKeys support:
3824 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3825 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3826 the control was given.
3828 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3830 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3832 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3834 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3835 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3836 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3839 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
3840 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3841 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3842 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3843 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3844 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3847 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3848 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3849 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3850 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3851 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3852 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3854 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3855 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3856 do -d+all out of habit.
3858 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3859 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3862 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3863 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3864 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3865 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3866 record types that Exim uses.
3868 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3869 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3870 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3871 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3872 non-existent file that was broken.
3874 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3875 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3877 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3878 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3879 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3881 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3883 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3884 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3885 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3886 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3887 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3890 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3891 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3892 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3893 at a slight CPU cost.
3895 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3896 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3898 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3901 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3903 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3904 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3910 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3911 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3913 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
3915 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3917 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3918 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3920 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3921 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3922 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3923 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3924 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3925 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3928 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3929 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3930 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3931 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3934 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3935 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3936 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3937 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3938 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3939 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3940 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
3943 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3944 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3946 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3947 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3948 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3949 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3950 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3951 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3953 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3954 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3955 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3956 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3958 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3961 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3962 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
3964 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3965 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
3966 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3967 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3970 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3972 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3973 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3975 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3976 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3977 to what was transported.)
3979 TF/01 Added $received_time.
3981 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3982 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3983 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3984 spamd_address settings.
3986 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3987 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3988 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3989 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3990 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3992 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3994 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3995 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3996 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3997 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3998 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4000 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4001 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4003 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4004 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4005 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4006 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4007 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4008 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4009 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4012 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4013 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4014 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4015 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4016 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4017 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4018 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4021 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4023 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4024 driver and ACL definitions.
4026 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4027 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4029 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4030 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4031 understands it better than I do:
4033 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4034 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4036 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4037 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4038 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4039 => three warnings about OTP not working
4040 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4042 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4043 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4044 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4045 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4047 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4048 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4050 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4051 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4052 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4054 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4055 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4058 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4059 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4062 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4063 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4064 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4066 warn !verify = sender
4067 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4069 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4070 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4072 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4074 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4075 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4077 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4078 nomenclature these days.)
4080 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4081 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4083 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4084 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4085 . First host does not offer TLS;
4086 . First host accepts first address;
4087 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4088 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4089 . Second host accepts second address.
4090 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4091 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4094 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4095 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4096 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4097 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4098 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4100 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4101 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4103 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4104 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4106 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4107 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4108 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4110 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4111 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4114 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4116 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4117 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4118 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4119 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4120 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4121 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4122 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4124 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4125 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4126 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4127 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4128 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4130 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4131 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4134 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4135 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4136 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4137 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4138 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4139 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4141 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4143 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4144 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4145 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4146 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4147 printable escape sequences.
4149 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4150 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4153 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4154 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4157 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4158 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4159 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4160 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4161 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4163 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4164 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4165 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4167 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4169 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4170 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4173 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4174 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4175 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4176 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4177 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4178 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4179 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4180 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4181 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4184 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4185 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4186 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4187 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4191 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4192 ----------------------------------------
4194 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4195 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4196 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4197 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4198 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4199 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4202 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
4203 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4204 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4205 historical information.
4211 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4213 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4214 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4216 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4217 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4220 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4221 filter fails to execute.
4223 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4224 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4225 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4226 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4227 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4229 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4231 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4232 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4233 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4234 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4236 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4237 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4238 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4239 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4240 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4242 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4244 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4246 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4247 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4248 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4249 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4251 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4252 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4253 sender verification.
4255 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4256 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4258 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4260 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4263 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4264 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4266 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4267 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4269 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4270 information about exactly what failed.
4272 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4274 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4275 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4276 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4278 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4279 It is now set to "smtps".
4281 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4282 ignore_target_hosts.
4284 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4285 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4286 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4287 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4290 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4291 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4292 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4294 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4295 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4296 wake it up if nothing else does.
4298 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4299 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4300 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4303 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4304 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4306 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4308 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4309 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4310 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4311 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4312 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4313 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4314 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4315 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4317 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4318 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4319 than one IP address.
4321 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4322 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4323 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4324 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4326 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4327 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4328 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4329 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4330 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4333 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4334 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4335 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4336 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4338 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4339 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4342 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4343 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4344 $sender_host_address.
4346 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4347 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4348 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4349 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4350 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4353 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4355 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4356 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4358 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4359 just the host names, not the priorities.
4361 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4362 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4363 controlled by a keyword.
4365 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4366 multiple records are returned.
4368 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4369 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4372 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4374 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4375 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4377 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4378 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4379 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4381 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4383 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4385 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4387 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4388 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4389 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4390 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4391 because the tests only now provoked it.
4393 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4394 (this can affect the format of dates).
4396 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4397 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4398 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4399 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4401 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4403 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4404 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4405 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4406 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4408 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4409 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4410 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4412 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4415 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4416 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4417 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4418 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4419 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4420 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4423 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4424 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4425 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4428 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4429 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4430 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4432 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4433 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4434 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4435 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4436 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4437 so I produce this patch..."
4439 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4440 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4443 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4444 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4445 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4446 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4449 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4451 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4452 long debug lines gets shown.
4454 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4455 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4457 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4459 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4460 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4461 of $primary_hostname.
4463 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4464 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4465 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4466 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4467 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4468 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4469 by change 4.50/55 above.
4471 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4472 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4473 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4474 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4475 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4476 running as the user.
4479 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4480 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4481 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4484 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4485 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4487 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4488 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4489 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4490 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4491 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4493 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4494 This has been fixed.
4496 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4497 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4498 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4499 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4502 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4504 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4505 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4506 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4507 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4509 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4510 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4512 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4513 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4514 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4516 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4517 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4518 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4521 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4522 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4523 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4525 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4526 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4527 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4528 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4530 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4531 during host lookups.
4533 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4534 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4536 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4538 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4539 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4540 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4541 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4542 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4545 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4546 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4548 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4549 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4550 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4552 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4554 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4555 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4556 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4557 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4558 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4559 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4562 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4563 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4564 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4565 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4566 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4568 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4571 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4573 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4574 "vacation" handling.
4576 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4577 OS variants using glibc.
4579 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4582 ----------------------------------------------------
4583 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4584 ----------------------------------------------------
4590 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4591 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4594 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4595 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4598 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4599 filter fails to execute.
4601 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4602 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4603 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4604 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4605 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4607 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4608 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4609 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4610 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4612 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4613 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4614 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4615 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4616 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4618 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4620 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4621 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4622 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4623 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4625 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4626 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4627 sender verification.
4629 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4630 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4632 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4633 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4635 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4636 ignore_target_hosts.
4638 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4639 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4640 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4641 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4644 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4645 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4646 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4648 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4649 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4650 wake it up if nothing else does.
4652 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4653 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4654 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4657 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4658 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4660 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
4662 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4663 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4666 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4667 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4670 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4671 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4672 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4673 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4674 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4677 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4678 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4681 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4682 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4683 $sender_host_address.
4685 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4687 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4688 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4689 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4691 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
4694 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4695 (this can affect the format of dates).
4697 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4698 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4699 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4700 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4702 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4703 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4704 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4706 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4707 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4708 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4709 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4711 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4712 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4713 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4715 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4718 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4719 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4720 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4721 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4722 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4723 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4726 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4727 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4728 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4729 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4732 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4733 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4734 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4735 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4736 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4737 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4738 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4740 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4741 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4742 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4743 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4744 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4745 running as the user.
4748 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4749 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4750 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4753 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4754 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4755 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4756 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4757 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4759 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4760 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4761 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4762 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4765 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4766 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4767 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4768 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4769 because the tests only now provoked it.
4775 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4776 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4777 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4778 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4779 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4780 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4781 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4783 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4784 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4787 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4789 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4791 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4792 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4795 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4796 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4797 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4798 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4799 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4801 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4802 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4804 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4806 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4808 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4811 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4812 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4814 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4815 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4816 affecting debugging statements).
4818 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4820 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4821 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4822 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4823 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4824 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4825 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4826 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4827 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4828 after the received time, and all would be well.
4830 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4831 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4832 condition in an expansion string.
4834 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4836 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4837 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4838 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4839 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4840 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4841 job under whatever limits there are.
4843 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4845 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4848 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4849 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4850 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4851 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4854 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4855 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4856 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4857 binary data in such strings.
4859 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4861 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4862 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4863 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4864 failure, which is pointless.
4866 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4868 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4870 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4871 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4872 Sender: header lines.
4874 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4875 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4876 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4878 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4879 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4880 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4881 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4882 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4885 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4886 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4887 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4888 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4889 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4891 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4892 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4893 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4896 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4897 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4899 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4900 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4902 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4904 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4906 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4908 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4911 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4913 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4915 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4916 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4917 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4918 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4920 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4921 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4927 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4928 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4929 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4931 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4932 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4933 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4934 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4935 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4936 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4938 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4939 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4940 verification failure".
4942 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4943 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4944 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4945 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4947 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4948 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4949 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4950 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4951 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4952 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4953 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4954 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4955 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4956 treated as a timeout.
4958 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4959 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4960 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4961 not set for Exim filters).
4963 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4964 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4965 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4967 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4969 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4970 try to make them clearer.
4972 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4973 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4975 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4977 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4979 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4980 only the Cygwin environment.
4982 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4983 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4984 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4985 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4986 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4988 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4989 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4990 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4991 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4992 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4993 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4994 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4996 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4997 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4999 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5001 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5002 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5003 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5005 To: susanne@some.where
5007 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5008 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5009 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5010 of addresses in From: header lines).
5012 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5013 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5014 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5016 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5017 treated as non-personal.
5019 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5020 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5022 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5024 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5026 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5027 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5028 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5030 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5031 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5033 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5034 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5035 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5036 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5037 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5038 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5040 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5041 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5042 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5043 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5044 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5045 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5046 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5047 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5049 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5051 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5052 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5054 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5055 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5056 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5058 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5059 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5061 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5062 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5063 rather than long int.
5065 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5067 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5073 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5074 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5075 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5076 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5077 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5078 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5084 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5085 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5087 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5088 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5089 socklen_t is defined.
5091 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5094 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5097 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5098 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5099 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5100 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5101 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5103 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5104 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5105 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5106 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5108 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5109 of flapping under certain conditions.
5111 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5112 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5113 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5115 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5117 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5119 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5120 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5121 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5122 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5124 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5125 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5126 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5127 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5128 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5129 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5130 preserved with the message after it was received.
5132 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5133 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5134 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5135 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5136 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5137 test suite worked just fine.
5139 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5140 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5141 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5143 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5144 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5147 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5148 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5149 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5150 does not fully solve it.
5152 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5153 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5154 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5155 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5156 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5158 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5159 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5160 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5162 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5163 string, for example:
5165 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5167 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5168 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5169 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5170 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5171 the routers could not see them.
5173 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5174 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5176 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5177 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5180 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5181 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5182 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5183 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5184 that needed quoting.
5186 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5187 was not being matched caselessly.
5189 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5192 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5193 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5194 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5195 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5196 when use_sender is false.
5198 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5200 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5202 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5204 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5205 the configuration file.
5207 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5208 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5210 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5212 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5213 bytes in the message body.
5215 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5216 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5219 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5221 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5223 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5224 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5225 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5226 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5233 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5234 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5236 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5237 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5238 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5239 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5240 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5242 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5243 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5245 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5246 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5247 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5249 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5250 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5251 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5253 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5256 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5257 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5258 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5259 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5260 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5261 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5262 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5268 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5269 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5270 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5271 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5272 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5273 default (and expected) setting.
5275 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5276 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5277 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5278 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5280 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5281 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5283 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5286 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5287 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5288 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5289 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5290 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5291 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5293 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5294 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5295 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5297 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5298 part (NOT match_host).
5300 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5302 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5303 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5304 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5305 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5306 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5307 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5308 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5309 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5310 the same named file.
5312 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5313 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5316 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5317 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5318 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5319 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5322 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5323 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5324 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5326 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5328 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5330 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5332 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5333 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5335 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5336 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5337 before starting the TLS session.
5339 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5341 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5342 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5344 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5345 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5346 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5347 colon in the middle).
5353 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5354 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5355 multiple configurations are in use.
5357 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5358 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5359 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5360 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5361 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5362 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5364 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5365 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5367 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5368 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5369 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5371 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5372 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5375 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5376 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5378 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5380 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5381 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5383 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5391 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5392 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5393 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5394 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5395 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5397 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5400 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5401 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5402 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5403 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5404 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5405 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5407 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5408 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5409 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5410 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5411 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5412 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5413 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5416 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5417 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5418 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5419 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5420 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5422 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5424 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5425 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5426 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5428 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5430 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5431 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5432 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5435 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5436 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5438 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5439 Three changes have been made:
5441 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5442 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5443 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5444 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5445 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5447 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5450 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5451 the modified behaviour.
5457 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5460 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5461 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5463 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5464 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5465 try to track down a specific problem.
5467 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5468 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5469 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5471 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5474 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5475 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5476 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5477 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5478 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5479 some earlier ones do not.
5481 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5483 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5484 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5485 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5486 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5487 address literals are enabled, of course).
5489 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5491 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5492 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5493 by a command such as
5497 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5499 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5501 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5502 remained set. It is now erased.
5504 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5505 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5507 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5508 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5509 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5510 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5511 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5512 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5513 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5514 appropriate error code.
5516 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5517 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5518 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5519 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5520 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5521 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5523 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5524 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5525 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5527 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5528 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5529 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5530 terminate the header.
5532 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5533 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5534 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5536 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5537 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5538 (4.30/29). In particular:
5540 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5543 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5544 to write a maildirsize file.
5546 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5547 the transport, the new value overrides.
5549 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5552 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5553 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5554 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5557 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5558 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5559 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5562 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5563 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5564 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5566 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5567 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5570 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5571 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5572 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5574 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5576 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5578 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5580 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5581 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5584 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5585 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5586 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5587 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5588 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5589 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5590 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5593 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5594 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5595 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5596 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5597 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5600 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5601 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5602 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5603 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5604 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5605 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5606 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5607 cached value only when the same options are set.
5609 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5611 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5612 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5613 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5614 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5615 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5617 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5618 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5619 it is clearly obsolete.
5621 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5624 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5625 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5626 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5629 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5630 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5631 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5632 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5633 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5635 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5636 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5637 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5638 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5640 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5642 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5644 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5645 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5648 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5649 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5650 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5651 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5652 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5653 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5656 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5657 with the -f command-line option.
5659 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5660 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5661 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5662 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5663 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5664 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5666 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5667 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5670 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5671 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5672 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5673 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5674 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5675 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5676 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5677 buffer is too small.
5679 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5680 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5682 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5683 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5684 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5685 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5686 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5687 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5688 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5689 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5690 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5692 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5693 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5694 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5696 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5697 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5700 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5701 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5702 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5703 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5704 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5706 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5707 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5708 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5709 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5712 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5714 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5716 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5717 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5719 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5720 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5721 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5723 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5724 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5725 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5726 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5727 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5729 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5730 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5731 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5732 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5733 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5734 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5735 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5737 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5738 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5739 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5740 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5741 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5742 the test of how many are available.
5744 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5745 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5746 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5747 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5748 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5749 new message is started.
5751 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5752 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5754 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5755 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5757 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5758 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5759 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5762 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5763 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5764 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5765 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5766 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5767 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5768 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5770 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5771 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5772 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5773 interpreted as octal.
5775 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5778 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5779 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5780 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5781 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5782 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5783 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5785 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5786 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5787 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5788 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5790 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5791 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5792 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5793 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5795 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5796 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5799 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5800 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5802 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5804 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5805 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5806 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5807 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5809 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5810 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5811 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5812 supplied", which is not helpful.
5814 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5815 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5816 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5818 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5819 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5820 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5821 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5822 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5823 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5824 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5825 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5827 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5828 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5829 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5830 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5831 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5833 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5834 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5835 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5836 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5837 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
5838 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5840 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5841 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5842 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5844 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
5846 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5847 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5848 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5851 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5853 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5854 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5855 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5856 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5857 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5858 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5859 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5860 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5862 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5863 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5864 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5865 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5866 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5868 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5871 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5872 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5873 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5874 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5875 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5876 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5877 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5878 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5879 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5885 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5886 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5887 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5889 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5892 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5893 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5894 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5896 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5897 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5898 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5899 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5900 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5901 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
5903 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5904 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5905 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5906 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5907 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5908 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5909 the Exim test suite.
5911 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5912 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5913 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5914 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5916 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5917 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5918 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5919 specify it in this variable.
5921 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5922 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5923 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5924 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5926 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5927 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5928 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5929 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5931 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5932 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5933 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5934 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5935 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5937 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5939 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5942 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5943 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5944 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5945 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5946 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5948 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5949 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5951 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5952 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5953 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5954 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5955 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5957 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5958 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5960 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5961 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5962 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5964 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5965 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5967 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5968 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5970 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5971 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5972 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5974 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5975 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5977 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5978 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5979 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5980 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5982 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5984 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5985 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5986 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5987 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5989 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5991 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5992 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5994 25. Added .include_if_exists.
5996 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5997 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5998 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5999 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6000 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6001 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6003 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6005 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6006 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6009 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6011 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6012 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6014 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6015 550 Sender verify failed
6017 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6018 the final line of the response.
6020 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6021 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6022 all other user lookups.
6024 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6027 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6028 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6029 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6030 result into an int without checking.
6032 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6033 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6034 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6036 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6037 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6038 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6039 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6041 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6044 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6045 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6047 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6048 to the empty sender.
6050 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6051 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6052 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6053 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6054 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6055 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6056 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6059 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6060 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6061 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6062 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6065 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6066 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6068 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6071 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6072 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6074 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6076 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6077 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6080 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6081 as soon as it is encountered.
6083 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6085 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6088 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6089 recognizes a tab character.
6091 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6092 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6093 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6094 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6096 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6098 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6101 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6103 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6105 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6106 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6109 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6110 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6111 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6112 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6113 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6115 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6116 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6118 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6119 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6120 list (.included file names were always shown).
6122 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6123 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6124 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6127 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6128 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6130 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6132 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6134 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6136 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6137 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6138 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6139 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6140 failures to open the logs.
6142 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6143 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6144 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6145 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6146 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6147 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6148 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6154 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6155 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6156 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6159 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6160 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6161 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6163 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6164 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6165 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6167 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6168 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6169 causing some misleading effects.
6171 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6172 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6173 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6175 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6176 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6177 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6178 queue-runner function directly.
6184 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6187 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6188 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6189 was always written to the default place.
6191 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6192 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6193 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6195 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6197 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6199 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6200 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6201 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6203 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6204 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6207 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6208 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6209 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6211 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6212 command line option is disabled.
6214 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6215 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6217 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6219 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6221 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6222 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6224 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6226 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6227 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6228 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6229 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6230 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6231 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6233 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6234 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6237 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6238 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6240 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6241 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6243 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6244 received was valid base64.
6246 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6247 name of the variable that was being set.
6249 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6251 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6252 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6253 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6254 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6255 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6256 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6258 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6260 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6261 nor realm was specified.
6263 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6264 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6265 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6266 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6268 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6269 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6270 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6272 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6273 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6274 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6276 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6277 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6278 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6279 some systems use these upper case variants.
6281 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6282 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6283 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6284 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6286 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6288 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6289 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6291 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6292 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6295 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6297 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6298 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6299 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6300 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6302 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6305 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6306 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6307 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6309 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6310 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6312 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6313 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6314 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6315 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6317 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6318 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6319 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6321 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6323 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6324 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6325 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6326 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6329 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6330 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6331 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6333 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6335 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6336 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6338 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6339 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6341 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6342 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6343 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6344 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6345 when emails are that large.
6352 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6353 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6355 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6356 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6357 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6359 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6360 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6361 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6363 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6364 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6365 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6366 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6367 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6369 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6370 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6371 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6372 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6373 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6376 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6377 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6378 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6379 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6380 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6381 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6382 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6383 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6384 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6385 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6386 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6387 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6388 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6389 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6391 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6392 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6395 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6396 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6397 error should be diagnosed.
6399 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6400 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6401 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6402 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6403 appeared instead of "NULL".
6405 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6406 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6407 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6408 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6409 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6410 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6413 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6414 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6415 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6421 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6422 or receiver verification errors.
6424 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6427 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6428 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6429 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6430 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6432 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6433 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6434 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6435 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6436 shouldn't happen again.
6438 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6439 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6440 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6442 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6443 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6445 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6447 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6448 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6450 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6451 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6454 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6455 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6456 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6458 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6459 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6460 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6461 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6463 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6464 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6465 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6466 to define what should happen).
6468 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6469 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6470 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6472 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6474 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6476 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6477 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6479 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
6480 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6481 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6482 structure in all cases.
6484 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6485 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6486 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6487 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6489 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6490 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6493 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6494 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6496 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6497 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6499 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6500 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6501 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6503 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6504 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6505 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6507 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6508 the book and for uniformity.
6510 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6512 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6513 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6514 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6515 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6516 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6517 non-existent command as the problem.
6519 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6520 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6521 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6523 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6525 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6526 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6527 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6529 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6530 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6531 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6532 timestamps using strftime().
6534 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6535 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6537 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6538 transport-time rewrites.
6540 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6541 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6542 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6543 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6545 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6546 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6548 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6549 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6550 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6551 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6554 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6555 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6556 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6557 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6558 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6559 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6560 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6562 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6563 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6564 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6565 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6566 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6568 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6569 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6570 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6571 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6572 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6573 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6574 remaining text gets split now.
6576 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6577 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6578 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6579 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6581 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6582 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6583 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6584 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6587 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6588 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6589 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6590 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6591 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6592 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6593 passed through if needed.
6595 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6596 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6597 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6598 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6599 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6600 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6602 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6603 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6604 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6605 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6606 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6608 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6609 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6610 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6611 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6612 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6614 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6615 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6618 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6619 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6620 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6621 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6622 mayhem of various kinds.
6624 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6625 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6626 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6627 the right test for positive values.
6629 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6630 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6631 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6632 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6633 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6634 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6635 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6636 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6637 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6638 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6641 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6644 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6645 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6648 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6649 the existing equality matching.
6651 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6652 dealing with inode numbers.
6654 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6655 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6656 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6658 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6659 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6660 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6661 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6664 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6665 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6666 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6667 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6668 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6669 relay addresses has also been removed.
6671 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6673 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6674 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6675 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6677 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6678 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6679 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6680 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6681 processing applies to CR:
6683 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6684 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6686 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6687 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6688 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6689 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6691 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6692 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6693 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6695 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6696 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6697 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6698 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6699 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6700 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6703 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6706 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6707 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6708 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6709 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6712 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6714 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6716 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6718 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6719 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6720 not considered personal.
6722 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6724 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6726 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6728 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6729 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6730 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6731 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6732 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6733 header lines, and spool format errors.
6735 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6736 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6737 for more flexibility.
6739 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6740 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6741 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6743 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6746 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6747 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6748 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6749 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6750 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6751 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6752 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6753 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6754 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6756 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6757 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6758 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6759 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6760 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6761 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6762 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6764 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6765 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6766 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6768 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6769 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6770 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6771 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6772 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6773 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6774 instead of killing the process with assert().
6776 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6777 than Unicode encoding.
6779 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6780 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6781 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6782 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6784 77. Added process_log_path.
6786 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6787 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6789 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6790 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6792 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6793 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6794 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6796 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6797 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6798 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6799 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6800 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6803 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6804 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6807 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6808 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6809 they will be used during message reception.
6815 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.