1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
10 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
11 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
13 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
15 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
16 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
19 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
20 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
21 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
23 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
25 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
27 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
28 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
29 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
31 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
32 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
33 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
35 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
36 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
38 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
39 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
42 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
43 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
44 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
45 should both provide the file and set the option.
46 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
48 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
49 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
51 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
52 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
53 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
54 Authentication-Results: header.
56 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
57 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
58 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
59 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
61 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
62 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
63 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
64 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
65 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
66 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
67 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
69 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
70 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
71 copies while it is still usable.
73 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
74 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
75 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
77 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
78 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
80 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
81 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
82 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
83 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
85 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
86 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
87 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
90 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
91 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
92 - the pipe transport command
93 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
94 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
96 - paths used by single-key lookups
97 Previously this was permitted.
99 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
100 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
101 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
102 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
104 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
105 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
106 support larger malloc requests.
108 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
109 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
110 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
111 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
113 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
114 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
115 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
116 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
119 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
120 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
121 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
122 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
123 data being length-specified.
125 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
126 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
127 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
128 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
130 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
131 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
132 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
133 not being properly tracked.
135 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
136 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
137 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
138 minute could be seen.
140 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
141 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
142 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
144 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
145 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
147 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
148 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
151 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
153 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
154 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
156 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
157 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
158 filesystem as sufficient validation.
160 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
161 argument is supplied.
163 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
164 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
165 access under Exim's current working directory.
167 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
168 Previously no event was raised.
170 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
171 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
172 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
175 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
176 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
177 the size of the signature hash.
179 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
180 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
182 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
183 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
184 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
185 dropped between messages.
187 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
188 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
189 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
190 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
192 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
193 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
194 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
195 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
196 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
197 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
198 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
199 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
200 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
202 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
203 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
204 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
206 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
207 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
214 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
215 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
217 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
218 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
221 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
224 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
226 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
228 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
229 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
231 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
232 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
233 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
234 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
235 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
236 suitably configured).
238 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
239 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
241 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
242 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
245 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
246 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
248 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
249 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
250 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
251 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
254 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
255 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
256 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
258 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
261 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
262 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
264 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
265 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
266 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
267 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
270 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
271 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
272 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
273 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
276 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
277 shared (NFS) environment.
279 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
280 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
283 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
284 on some platforms for bit 31.
286 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
287 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
288 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
289 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
290 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
291 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
292 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
293 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
295 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
297 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
298 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
300 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
301 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
304 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
305 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
308 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
309 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
310 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
313 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
314 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
315 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
317 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
318 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
319 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
320 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
321 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
323 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
326 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
327 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
328 be requested on all coneections.
330 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
331 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
333 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
335 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
336 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
337 one for these; the option was ignored.
339 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
340 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
341 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
342 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
344 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
345 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
346 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
349 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
350 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
351 error ignored was made.
353 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
355 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
356 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
357 values, to catch one form of exploit.
359 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
360 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
361 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
363 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
364 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
367 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
368 them in our smtp response.
370 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
371 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
372 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
373 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
374 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
376 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
377 link count into consideration.
379 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
380 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
382 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
383 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
384 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
387 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
389 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
391 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
393 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
394 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
395 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
396 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
398 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
400 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
401 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
404 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
405 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
406 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
408 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
409 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
410 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
412 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
413 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
414 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
415 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
416 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
417 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
418 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
419 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
421 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
422 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
423 resulted in an indefinite loop.
425 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
426 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
427 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
433 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
434 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
436 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
437 non-signal-safe functions being used.
439 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
440 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
441 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
443 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
444 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
445 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
447 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
448 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
449 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
450 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
451 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
454 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
455 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
457 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
458 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
459 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
460 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
461 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
462 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
463 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
465 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
466 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
468 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
471 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
472 Previously this would segfault.
474 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
477 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
478 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
479 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
480 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
481 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
482 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
484 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
486 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
487 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
488 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
489 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
491 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
493 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
494 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
495 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
496 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
498 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
500 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
502 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
503 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
504 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
506 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
507 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
508 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
510 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
512 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
513 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
514 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
515 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
517 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
518 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
519 promised '?' replacement.
521 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
523 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
524 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
525 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
526 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
527 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
529 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
530 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
531 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
533 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
534 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
535 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
537 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
538 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
539 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
541 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
542 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
543 hope that is portable enough.
545 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
546 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
547 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
548 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
550 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
551 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
552 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
554 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
555 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
556 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
557 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
559 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
560 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
562 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
563 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
564 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
565 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
567 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
568 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
569 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
571 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
572 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
573 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
574 the previous G, M, k.
576 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
577 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
580 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
581 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
582 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
583 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
585 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
586 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
588 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
589 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
590 off past the nul-terimation.
592 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
593 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
594 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
595 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
596 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
598 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
600 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
601 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
602 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
605 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
606 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
608 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
609 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
610 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
612 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
613 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
614 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
616 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
617 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
623 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
624 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
625 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
626 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
627 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
628 be defined in redis_servers.
630 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
631 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
633 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
634 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
635 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
636 extant use locations.
638 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
639 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
641 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
642 Previously only the last row was returned.
644 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
645 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
646 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
647 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
650 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
651 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
652 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
653 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
654 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
655 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
656 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
657 Main pool for expansions.
658 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
659 active in the testsuite.
660 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
662 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
663 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
664 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
665 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
668 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
669 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
672 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
673 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
674 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
676 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
677 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
678 ClamAV interface method is removed.
680 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
681 rows affected is given instead).
683 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
684 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
686 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
687 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
688 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
689 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
690 for all multi-message initiating connections.
692 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
693 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
694 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
696 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
697 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
698 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
699 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
702 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
703 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
704 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
707 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
709 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
710 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
712 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
713 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
714 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
716 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
717 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
718 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
721 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
722 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
724 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
725 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
726 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
728 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
729 for the build is renamed.
731 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
732 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
733 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
735 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
736 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
737 result replacing the original.
739 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
740 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
741 and the resources needed to be freed.
743 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
745 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
748 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
749 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
750 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
751 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
753 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
754 length value. Previously this would segfault.
756 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
757 newer versions of the scanner.
759 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
760 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
761 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
762 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
763 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
764 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
765 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
767 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
768 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
769 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
770 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
771 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
772 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
773 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
774 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
775 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
776 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
778 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
779 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
781 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
783 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
784 allows proper process termination in container environments.
786 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
787 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
789 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
790 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
791 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
793 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
794 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
795 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
796 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
798 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
799 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
802 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
803 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
805 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
806 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
807 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
808 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
809 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
811 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
812 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
815 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
816 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
818 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
821 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
822 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
823 "bare" representation.
825 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
826 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
827 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
828 corrupted the output.
834 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
835 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
836 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
837 pairs of long lines into single ones.
839 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
840 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
842 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
843 This permits better logging.
845 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
846 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
847 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
848 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
849 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
850 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
852 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
853 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
856 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
857 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
858 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
860 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
861 than 255 are no longer allowed.
863 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
864 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
865 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
866 client, there is no benefit for these.
867 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
868 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
869 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
872 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
873 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
875 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
876 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
877 erroneously found still-pending ones.
879 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
880 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
882 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
883 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
884 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
885 signature and again for transmission.
887 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
888 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
889 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
891 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
892 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
893 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
894 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
895 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
896 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
897 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
899 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
900 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
901 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
902 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
904 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
905 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
906 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
907 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
908 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
909 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
912 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
913 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
914 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
915 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
918 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
919 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
920 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
921 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
924 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
925 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
928 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
929 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
930 banner-time rejection.
932 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
935 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
936 is the name of a transport.
939 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
941 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
942 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
944 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
945 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
946 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
949 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
950 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
951 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
952 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
954 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
955 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
956 initial verify call returned a defer.
958 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
959 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
961 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
962 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
964 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
965 if present. Previously it was ignored.
967 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
968 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
970 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
971 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
974 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
975 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
977 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
978 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
979 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
981 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
982 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
983 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
984 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
986 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
987 and confused the parent.
989 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
990 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
992 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
995 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
996 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
997 out-of-order delivery.
999 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1000 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1001 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1004 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1005 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1008 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1009 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1010 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1012 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1013 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1014 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1015 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1016 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1017 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1019 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1020 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1021 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1023 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1024 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1025 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1027 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1028 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1029 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1030 though a different problem.
1036 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1037 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1039 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1041 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1042 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1044 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1045 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1047 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1048 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1049 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1050 before acknowledging the chunk.
1052 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1053 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1054 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1056 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1057 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1058 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1061 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1062 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1063 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1065 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1066 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1068 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1069 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1070 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1071 body hash calculated value.
1073 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1074 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1075 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1077 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1079 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1080 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1082 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1083 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1084 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1086 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1087 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1088 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1089 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1090 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1091 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1093 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1094 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1095 past that check, despite the cost.
1097 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1098 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1099 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1101 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1102 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1103 TLS library to consume.
1105 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1107 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1109 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1110 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1111 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1112 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1113 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1114 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1115 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1117 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1119 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1121 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1122 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1123 should be warning-free.
1125 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1127 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1128 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1130 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1131 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1132 general solution here.
1134 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1135 already-broken messages in the queue.
1137 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1139 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1145 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1146 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1148 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1149 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1150 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1152 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1153 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1154 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1155 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1156 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1157 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1158 if one fails this test.
1159 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1160 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1162 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1163 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1165 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1166 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1168 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1169 in rewrites and routers.
1171 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1172 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1174 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1175 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1177 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1179 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1182 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1183 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1184 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1185 connection after a verify cache hit.
1186 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1188 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1189 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1191 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1192 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1193 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1194 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1195 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1197 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1198 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1200 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1201 Previously they were not counted.
1203 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1204 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1205 that needed the lookup.
1207 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1208 distinguished as "(=".
1210 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1211 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1213 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1215 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1216 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1218 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1219 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1221 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1222 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1225 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1226 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1227 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1228 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1230 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1232 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1233 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1234 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1236 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1237 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1238 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1241 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1242 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1243 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1246 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1247 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1248 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1250 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1251 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1254 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1256 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1257 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1259 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1260 are not in the system include path.
1262 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1263 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1264 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1265 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1267 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1268 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1269 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1271 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1273 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1274 an incoming connection.
1276 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1279 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1280 fallback to "prime256v1".
1282 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1283 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1289 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1290 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1291 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1292 client dropping the TLS connection.
1294 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1295 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1297 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1298 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1299 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1300 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1303 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1304 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1305 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1306 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1307 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1308 check on the next write.
1310 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1311 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1312 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1313 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1314 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1316 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1317 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1319 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1320 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1321 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1323 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1324 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1325 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1326 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1328 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1329 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1331 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1332 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1334 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1335 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1336 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1339 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1341 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1343 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1345 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1346 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1348 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1349 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1351 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1353 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1354 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1356 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1358 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1359 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1361 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1363 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1364 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1365 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1366 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1367 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1368 they will retry in-clear.
1369 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1370 at installation time.
1372 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1373 with the $config_file variable.
1375 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1376 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1377 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1378 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1379 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1381 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1382 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1383 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1384 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1385 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1387 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1389 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1390 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1391 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1392 list order is no longer honoured.
1394 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1395 for DKIM processing.
1397 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1398 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1400 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1401 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1402 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1403 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1405 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1406 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1408 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1409 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1411 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1412 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1414 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1416 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1417 cached by the daemon.
1419 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1420 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1422 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1423 keys are given for lookup.
1425 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1426 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1427 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1428 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1430 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1431 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1432 server-side so match that on older versions.
1434 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1435 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1436 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1438 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1439 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1441 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1442 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1443 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1444 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1445 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1446 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1447 initial truncated version.
1449 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1451 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1453 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1454 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1456 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1458 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1460 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1461 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1464 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1465 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1468 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1469 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1471 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1472 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1475 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1476 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1477 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1479 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1480 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1481 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1482 extraction. Accept either.
1488 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1491 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1493 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1496 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1497 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1498 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1499 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1501 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1502 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1503 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1505 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1506 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1507 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1510 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1513 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1514 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1515 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1516 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1517 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1519 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1520 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1521 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1523 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1525 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1526 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1528 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1529 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1531 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1534 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1535 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1537 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1538 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1539 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1541 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1542 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1543 specify a port-range.
1545 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1546 timeout value per server.
1548 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1549 now have the list separator specified.
1551 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1554 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1557 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1559 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1560 rather than the verbs used.
1562 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1563 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1565 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1567 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1568 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1570 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1571 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1573 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1574 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1576 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1578 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1580 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1581 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1582 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1583 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1585 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1587 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1588 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1590 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1591 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1593 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1595 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1597 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1599 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1600 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1602 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1603 added for tls authenticator.
1605 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1611 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1612 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1613 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1614 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1615 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1616 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1617 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1619 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1620 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1621 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1622 function when detected.
1624 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1625 cause callback expansion.
1627 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1628 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1629 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1630 instead of bool when processing it.
1632 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1633 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1635 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1637 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1639 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1641 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1642 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1644 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1645 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1646 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1647 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1648 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1649 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1651 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1652 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1655 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1656 version 3.3.6 or later.
1658 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1659 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1660 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1661 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1662 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1663 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1666 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1667 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1669 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1670 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1671 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1674 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1675 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1676 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1678 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1679 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1681 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1682 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1685 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1687 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1688 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1690 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1691 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1694 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1696 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1699 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1700 output list separator was used.
1705 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1706 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1709 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1710 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1712 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1714 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1715 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1721 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1723 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1724 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1725 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1726 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1727 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1728 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1730 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1731 utilities have not been installed.
1733 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1734 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1736 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1737 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1739 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1740 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1741 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1742 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1744 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1746 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1747 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1749 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1752 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1754 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1755 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1756 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1758 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1759 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1760 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1761 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1762 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1763 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1765 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1767 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1768 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1770 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1773 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1775 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1777 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1778 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1780 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1781 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1783 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1785 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1787 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1788 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1790 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1791 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1792 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1794 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1795 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1796 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1799 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1801 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1802 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1805 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1806 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1809 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1810 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1812 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1813 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1815 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1817 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1818 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1819 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1821 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1822 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1824 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1825 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1828 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1829 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1830 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1832 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1834 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1835 Christian Aistleitner.
1837 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1839 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1840 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1842 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1843 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1845 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1846 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1848 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1849 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1851 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1852 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1854 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1855 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1856 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1858 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1860 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1861 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1864 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1866 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1867 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1874 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1876 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1877 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1879 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1882 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1883 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1886 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1888 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1889 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1890 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1891 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1892 using channel bindings instead).
1894 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1895 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1896 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1897 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1898 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1901 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1903 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1905 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1906 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1908 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1909 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1910 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1912 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1914 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1916 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1917 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1919 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1921 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1923 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1925 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1926 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1928 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1930 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1931 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1934 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1935 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1937 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1938 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1941 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1943 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1945 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1946 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1948 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1951 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1952 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1954 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1955 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1957 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1959 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1961 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1964 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1967 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1969 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1970 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1971 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1972 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1974 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1976 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1977 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1978 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1979 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1982 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1983 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1984 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1986 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1987 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1988 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1989 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1991 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1992 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1993 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1994 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1995 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1996 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1997 delivery, as in LMTP.
1999 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2000 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2002 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2004 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2008 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2009 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2010 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2011 username as equal to the username.
2013 This change corrects that bug.
2015 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2016 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2017 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2019 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2021 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2022 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2023 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2024 NULL dereference and crash.
2026 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2028 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2029 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2030 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2032 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2034 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2035 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2036 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2037 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2038 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2039 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2040 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2041 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2042 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2043 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2044 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2046 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2047 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2049 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2050 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2053 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2054 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2055 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2056 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2057 an empty string is now equivalent.
2059 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2060 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2061 not performing validation itself.
2063 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2064 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2066 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2069 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2071 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2072 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2073 other false fix of the same issue.
2074 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2077 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2078 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2080 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2081 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2082 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2084 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2085 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2086 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2088 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2090 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2092 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2093 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2095 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2098 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2099 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2100 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2101 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2102 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2104 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2105 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2107 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2108 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2111 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2112 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2113 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2114 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2116 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2118 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2119 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2120 from multiple comments on this bug.
2122 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2124 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2125 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2128 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2129 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2131 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2132 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2138 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2140 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2146 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2147 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2148 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2150 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2152 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2155 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2157 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2159 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2161 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2162 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2164 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2165 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2167 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2168 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2170 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2171 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2172 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2174 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2176 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2177 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2179 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2181 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2183 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2184 non-compliant senders.
2185 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2187 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2188 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2189 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2191 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2192 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2193 in spool file corruption.
2195 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2196 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2197 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2200 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2201 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2202 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2204 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2205 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2207 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2209 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2211 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2213 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2214 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2215 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2217 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2218 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2219 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2220 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2222 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2223 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2225 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2226 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2227 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2228 resolver implementation change.
2230 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2231 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2233 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2235 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2237 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2238 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2240 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2241 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2243 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2244 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2246 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2247 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2248 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2249 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2250 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2252 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2254 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2255 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2256 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2258 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2260 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2261 read-only, out of scope).
2262 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2264 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2265 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2266 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2267 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2269 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2271 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2272 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2273 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2274 real issues in debug logging.
2276 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2277 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2279 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2280 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2281 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2283 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2284 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2285 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2288 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2289 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2291 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2292 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2293 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2294 needs to override this, it can.
2296 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2297 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2298 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2300 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2301 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2302 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2303 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2305 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2311 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2312 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2314 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2316 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2319 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2320 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2322 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2323 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2324 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2326 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2327 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2328 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2329 not safe for signals.
2331 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2332 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2333 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2334 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2337 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2339 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2340 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2341 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2342 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2343 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2345 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2346 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2347 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2348 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2349 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2350 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2352 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2353 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2354 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2355 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2357 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2358 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2359 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2360 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2362 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2363 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2364 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2365 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2366 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2367 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2368 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2369 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2370 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2372 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2373 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2374 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2375 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2377 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2378 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2379 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2380 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2381 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2382 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2383 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2384 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2385 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2386 details in the main documentation.
2388 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2390 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2392 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2393 repository when doing development or release builds.
2395 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2396 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2398 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2399 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2402 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2404 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2405 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2407 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2408 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2410 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2411 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2413 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2414 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2416 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2417 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2419 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2421 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2424 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2425 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2426 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2428 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2430 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2432 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2433 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2439 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2441 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2442 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2444 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2446 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2448 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2451 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2452 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2454 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2455 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2457 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2458 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2460 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2463 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2464 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2466 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2467 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2468 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2469 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2471 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2472 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2478 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2481 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2482 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2483 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2485 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2486 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2488 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2489 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2490 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2492 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2493 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2495 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2496 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2498 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2499 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2501 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2502 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2504 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2505 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2507 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2510 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2511 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2513 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2514 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2516 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2517 SQL string expansion failure details.
2518 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2520 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2521 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2523 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2524 extern declarations in function scope.
2525 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2527 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2528 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2529 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2532 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2533 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2535 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2536 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2538 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2539 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2541 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2542 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2544 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2545 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2548 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2550 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2552 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2553 Patch by Simon Arlott
2555 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2556 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2562 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2563 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2565 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2566 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2568 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2570 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2571 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2572 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2574 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2575 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2576 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2578 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2579 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2580 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2581 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2583 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2584 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2585 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2586 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2588 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2589 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2590 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2593 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2596 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2597 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2598 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2599 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2600 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2606 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2607 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2608 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2610 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2611 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2613 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2615 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2617 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2619 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2621 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2623 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2624 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2625 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2626 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2628 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2629 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2630 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2631 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2632 more caution in buffer sizes.
2634 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2636 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2638 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2640 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2642 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2644 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2646 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2648 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2649 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2650 ignore trailing whitespace.
2652 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2654 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2657 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2658 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2660 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2661 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2662 Notification from John Horne.
2664 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2667 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2668 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2671 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2674 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2675 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2676 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2678 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2679 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2680 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2683 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2684 option (effectively making it always true).
2686 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2687 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2689 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2690 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2692 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2693 run-time user, instead of root.
2695 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2696 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2698 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2699 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2702 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2703 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2704 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2706 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2708 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2714 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2715 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2718 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2719 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2722 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2723 Patch from Alain Williams
2725 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2727 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2728 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2730 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2731 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2733 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2735 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2737 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2738 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2740 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2742 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2744 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2745 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2746 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2748 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2749 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2751 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2752 Patch by Simon Arlott
2754 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2755 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2761 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2763 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2765 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2767 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2769 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2775 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2776 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2778 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2779 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2782 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2783 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2784 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2786 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2787 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2789 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2790 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2791 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2792 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2794 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2795 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2796 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2798 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2800 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2802 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2803 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2805 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2807 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2808 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2809 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2810 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2812 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2813 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2815 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2817 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2819 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2820 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2822 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2823 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2825 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2826 that they are available at delivery time.
2828 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2830 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2831 incoming_port log selectors.
2833 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2834 setting expands to an empty string.
2836 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2837 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2839 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2840 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2842 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2843 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2845 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2846 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2848 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2849 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2851 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2852 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2854 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2856 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2857 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2859 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2860 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2862 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2864 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2865 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2867 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2869 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2871 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2874 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2875 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2877 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2878 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2880 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2881 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2883 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2884 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2886 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2887 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2889 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2890 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2892 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2893 plus update to original patch.
2895 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2897 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2898 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2900 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2902 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2904 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2906 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2908 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2909 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2911 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2912 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2914 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2915 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2917 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2918 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2920 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2922 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2924 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2926 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2932 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2933 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2934 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2936 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2937 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2938 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2939 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2940 build errors in sieve.c.
2942 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2943 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2944 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2946 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2948 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2950 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2952 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2958 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2960 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2961 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2962 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2963 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2964 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2965 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2966 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2967 for iplsearch lookups.
2969 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2970 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2971 previously such lookups could never work.
2973 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2974 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2975 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2977 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2980 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2981 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2982 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2983 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2984 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2985 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2987 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2988 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2990 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2991 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2992 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2993 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2994 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2995 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2997 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3000 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3002 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3003 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3006 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3007 by clients under certain conditions.
3009 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3010 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3012 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3014 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3015 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3017 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3019 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3021 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3023 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3024 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3026 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3028 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3029 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3031 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3033 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3035 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3036 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3037 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3038 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3040 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3041 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3042 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3044 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3045 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3047 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3049 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3051 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3053 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3054 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3055 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3061 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3062 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3065 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3066 issue a MAIL command.
3068 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3070 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3072 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3073 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3074 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3075 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3076 item. This has been fixed.
3078 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3079 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3081 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3082 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3084 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3085 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3086 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3088 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3090 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3091 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3092 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3093 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3094 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3096 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3097 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3098 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3100 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3101 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3102 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3103 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3105 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3107 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3109 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3110 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3111 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3112 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3113 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3115 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3117 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3118 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3119 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3122 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3124 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3126 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3128 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3130 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3132 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3133 no_callout_flush is set.
3135 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3136 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3137 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3140 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3142 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3143 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3144 other ACL rejections are.
3146 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3147 with slight modification.
3149 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3150 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3152 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3153 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3156 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3157 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3159 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3161 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3162 expansion side effects.
3164 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3165 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3166 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3169 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3170 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3171 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3173 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3174 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3175 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3176 were accidentally chopped off.
3178 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3179 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3180 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3181 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3182 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3183 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3184 pipelining has not been advertised.
3186 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3188 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3189 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3190 This has been fixed.
3192 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3193 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3194 reported on Solaris.
3196 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3197 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3198 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3199 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3200 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3201 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3202 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3204 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3207 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3209 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3211 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3212 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3213 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3214 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3215 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3216 criteria to be more general.
3218 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3219 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3220 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3221 host_all_ignored option.
3223 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3224 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3225 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3226 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3227 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3228 is what is supposed to happen).
3230 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3231 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3232 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3233 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3234 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3237 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3238 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3239 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3240 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3241 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3242 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3245 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3247 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3248 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3250 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3251 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3253 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3255 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3257 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3258 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3259 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3260 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3261 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3262 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3263 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3264 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3265 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3266 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3267 least in a lot of common cases.
3269 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3270 advertised in response to EHLO.
3276 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3277 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3279 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3280 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3282 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3283 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3284 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3286 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3287 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3288 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3289 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3290 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3296 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3297 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3300 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3301 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3302 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3304 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3305 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3306 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3307 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3308 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3309 rather than extend the field.
3315 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3316 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3317 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3318 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3321 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3322 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3323 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3325 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3326 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3327 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3329 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3330 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3331 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3334 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3335 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3336 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3337 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3338 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3339 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3340 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3341 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3342 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3343 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3344 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3346 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3349 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3350 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3351 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3352 ignores EPIPE as well.
3354 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3355 (quoted-printable decoding).
3357 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3358 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3360 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3362 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3364 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3366 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3367 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3369 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3372 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3373 miscellaneous code fixes
3375 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3378 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3379 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3380 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3381 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3382 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3383 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3384 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3385 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3387 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3388 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3389 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3390 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3392 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3393 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3394 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3395 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3396 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3397 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3398 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3399 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3400 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3402 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3405 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3406 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3407 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3408 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3409 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3410 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3411 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3412 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3414 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3415 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3418 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3419 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3420 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3421 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3422 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3423 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3424 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3425 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3426 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3427 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3428 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3429 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3430 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3432 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3433 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3434 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3435 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3436 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3437 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3438 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3440 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3441 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3442 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3443 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3444 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3445 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3446 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3447 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3448 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3449 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3451 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3452 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3453 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3454 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3455 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3457 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3458 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3459 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3460 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3461 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3462 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3463 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3465 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3466 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3467 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3468 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3469 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3470 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3473 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3474 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3475 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3478 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3479 if any retry times were supplied.
3481 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3482 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3483 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3485 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3487 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3489 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3490 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3491 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3492 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3493 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3494 before) are ignored.
3496 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3497 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3499 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3500 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3501 committing the later change.]
3503 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3504 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3505 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3506 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3507 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3508 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3509 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3510 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3511 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3513 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3514 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3515 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3516 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3517 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3518 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3519 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3520 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3521 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3523 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3524 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3525 hammering the server.
3527 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3528 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3530 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3532 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3533 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3534 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3536 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3537 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3538 one case where this was not true.
3540 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3541 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3542 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3543 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3546 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3547 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3548 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3549 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3550 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3551 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3552 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3553 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3554 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3557 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3558 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3559 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3560 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3562 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3563 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3565 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3566 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3567 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3569 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3571 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3573 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3575 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3576 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3577 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3578 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3580 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3581 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3583 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3584 be meaningful with "accept".
3586 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3587 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3589 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3590 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3591 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3593 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3594 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3595 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3596 there is data to show.
3597 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3599 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3600 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3601 as well as the number of messages.
3603 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3604 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3605 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3607 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3608 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3609 have a flag are now skipped.
3611 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3612 Added the -emptyok flag.
3614 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3615 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3617 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3618 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3619 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3621 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3624 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3625 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3627 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3629 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3630 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3632 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3634 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3635 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3636 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3637 contravention of the specifications.
3639 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3640 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3641 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3643 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3644 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3645 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3647 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3649 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3650 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3651 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3652 some point in the past.
3654 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3655 transport during callout processing was broken.
3657 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3658 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3660 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3661 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3663 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3664 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3666 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3672 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3673 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3675 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3676 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3677 there is data to show.
3678 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3680 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3681 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3683 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3684 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3686 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3687 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3689 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3690 submissions from trusted users.
3692 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3693 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3695 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3696 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3697 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3698 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3699 there is now a framework to start from.
3701 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3702 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3703 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3705 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3707 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3709 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3711 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3712 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3713 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3715 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3718 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3719 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3720 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3722 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3723 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3724 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3727 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3728 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3729 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3730 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3731 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3733 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3734 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3736 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3738 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3739 operations in malware.c.
3741 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3744 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3745 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3746 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3749 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3750 statements to "add_header".
3752 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3753 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3755 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3756 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3759 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3763 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3764 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3765 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3768 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3769 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3771 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3772 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3774 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3775 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3776 any possible encoding problems.
3778 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3779 but not after initializing Perl.
3781 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3782 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3783 apparently, which is not desirable.
3785 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3788 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3791 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3793 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3794 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3795 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3796 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3798 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3799 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3800 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3802 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3803 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3804 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3807 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3808 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3809 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3810 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3811 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3817 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3818 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3820 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3823 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3824 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3825 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3826 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3827 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3828 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3829 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3830 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3833 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3835 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3836 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3837 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3839 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3840 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3841 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3844 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3845 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3847 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3848 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3849 option (which defaults to 0600).
3851 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3853 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3854 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3855 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3856 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3857 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3858 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3859 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3861 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3867 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3868 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3869 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3870 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3871 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3872 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3875 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3876 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3878 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3880 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3881 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3882 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3883 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3884 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3887 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3888 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3890 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3891 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3892 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3893 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3894 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3896 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3897 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3898 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3899 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3901 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3902 be the same on different OS.
3904 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3907 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3908 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3910 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3913 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3914 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3915 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3916 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3917 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3918 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3921 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3922 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3923 when Exim was called.
3925 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3926 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3928 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3929 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3930 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3931 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3933 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3934 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3935 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3936 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3939 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3940 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3941 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3943 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3944 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3945 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3947 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3950 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3951 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3952 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3953 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3954 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3955 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3956 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3957 values from the SRV records were lost.
3959 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3960 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3961 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3963 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3964 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3965 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3967 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3968 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3969 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3970 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3971 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3972 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3973 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3974 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3975 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3976 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3978 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3979 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3980 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3982 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3983 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3985 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3986 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3987 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3988 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3991 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3992 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3993 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3995 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3996 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3997 PH/23 above applies.
3999 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4000 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4001 (for which there is an explicit test).
4003 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4005 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4006 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4007 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4008 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4009 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4011 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4012 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4013 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4014 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4016 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4017 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4018 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4020 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4022 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4024 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4025 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4026 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4028 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4029 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4030 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4031 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4032 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4034 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4035 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4036 the message gets confusing).
4038 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4039 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4040 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4041 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4043 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4044 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4045 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4046 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4049 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4050 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4051 the different processes.
4053 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4055 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4057 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4058 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4060 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4061 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4063 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4064 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4065 messages matching specified criteria.
4067 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4069 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4070 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4072 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4073 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4074 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4075 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4076 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4077 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4078 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4079 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4080 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4081 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4083 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4084 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4085 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4087 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4089 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4090 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4091 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4092 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4093 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4094 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4095 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4098 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4099 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4101 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4103 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4105 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4107 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4108 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4109 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4110 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4111 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4112 size of the count of files.
4114 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4116 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4119 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4120 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4121 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4122 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4124 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4125 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4126 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4128 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4129 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4130 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4131 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4132 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4134 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4135 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4137 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4138 will now be deprecated.
4140 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4142 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4143 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4144 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4146 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4147 with very large, slow to parse queues
4149 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4151 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4153 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4154 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4155 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4158 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4159 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4160 Sieve code now uses this.
4162 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4163 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4165 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4166 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4168 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4170 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4171 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4172 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4173 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4174 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4176 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4177 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4178 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4179 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4181 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4183 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4185 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4186 is preferred over IPv4.
4188 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4189 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4190 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4191 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4192 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4193 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4194 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4196 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4197 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4198 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4200 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4202 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4203 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4204 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4205 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4206 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4207 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4208 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4209 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4210 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4211 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4212 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4214 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4215 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4216 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4222 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4224 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4225 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4227 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4228 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4229 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4231 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4233 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4236 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4239 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4240 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4241 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4244 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4245 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4247 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4248 inside the third argument.
4250 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4251 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4254 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4255 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4257 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4258 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4260 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4262 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4263 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4266 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4268 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4269 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4270 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4271 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4272 identical. For example:
4274 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4276 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4277 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4278 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4280 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4281 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4282 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4283 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4285 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4286 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4287 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4290 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4292 o fixes some comments
4293 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4294 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4295 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4296 and documents the missing references header update
4300 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4301 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4304 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4305 Electronic Mail") by including:
4307 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4309 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4310 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4311 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4312 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4313 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4315 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4317 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4319 The auto-replied keyword:
4321 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4322 message by an automatic process,
4324 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4326 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4327 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4329 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4330 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4333 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4334 to the default Received: header definition.
4336 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4338 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4339 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4340 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4342 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4343 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4344 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4346 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4347 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4348 and treats the condition as false.
4350 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4352 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4353 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4354 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4355 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4356 not changing the active code.
4358 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4359 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4361 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4362 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4364 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4367 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4368 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4369 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4370 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4371 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4372 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4373 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4374 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4375 the text comparison.
4377 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4378 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4379 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4380 The same fix has been applied.
4386 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4387 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4390 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4391 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4393 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4395 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4396 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4397 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4398 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4399 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4401 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4402 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4403 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4404 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4407 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4415 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4416 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4418 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4420 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4422 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4423 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4424 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4426 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4427 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4428 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4430 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4431 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4434 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4435 ${stat: expansion item.
4437 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4438 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4440 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4441 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4444 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4446 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4449 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4450 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4452 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4454 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4455 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4456 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4457 the end of the subprocess.
4459 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4460 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4461 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4462 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4463 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4465 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4467 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4469 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4470 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4472 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4474 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4476 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4477 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4480 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4482 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4483 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4484 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4486 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4487 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4489 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4490 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4492 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4493 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4495 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4496 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4498 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4499 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4500 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4501 contributed by a Radius user.
4503 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4504 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4506 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4507 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4509 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4512 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4513 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4516 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4517 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4518 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4519 header lines when this was not necessary.
4521 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4523 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4524 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4525 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4528 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4531 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4532 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4533 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4534 return code was incorrect.
4536 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4538 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4540 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4542 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4544 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4545 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4546 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4547 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4548 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4551 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4553 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4554 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4555 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4556 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4557 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4558 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4559 which is clearly wrong.
4561 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4563 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4564 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4565 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4568 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4569 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4571 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4573 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4574 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4576 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4577 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4579 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4580 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4582 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4583 recipients, not senders.
4585 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4586 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4588 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4590 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4592 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4593 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4594 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4595 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4597 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4599 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4600 clock is set back in time.
4602 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4603 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4605 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4606 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4608 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4609 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4612 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4613 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4616 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4619 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4621 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4622 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4623 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4625 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4626 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4627 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4628 helo verification defer as a failure.
4630 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4631 actual error message.
4637 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4639 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4640 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4641 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4642 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4644 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4646 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4647 can still be requested.
4649 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4650 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4651 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4652 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4654 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4655 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4656 circumstances, but probably never did.
4658 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4659 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4660 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4663 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4665 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4666 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4668 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4670 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4672 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4673 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4674 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4675 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4676 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4677 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4679 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4680 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4681 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4682 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4683 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4684 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4686 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4687 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4689 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4690 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4692 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4693 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4695 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4697 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4699 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4701 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4703 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4705 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4707 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4709 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4710 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4711 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4713 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4714 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4715 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4716 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4718 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4719 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4720 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4722 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4723 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4724 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4725 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4727 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4728 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4731 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4732 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4733 should work with maildirs and everything.
4735 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4736 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4738 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4741 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4742 function for BDB 4.3.
4744 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4746 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4747 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4750 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4751 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4752 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4753 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4754 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4755 formatting function string_vformat().
4757 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4758 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4759 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4760 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4761 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4762 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4763 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4764 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4766 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4767 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4770 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4771 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4773 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4774 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4775 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4776 test. It is now used for both.
4778 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4779 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4780 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4781 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4782 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4783 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4785 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4786 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4787 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4790 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4791 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4792 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4794 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4795 experimental DomainKeys support:
4797 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4798 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4799 the control was given.
4801 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4803 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4805 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4807 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4808 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4809 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4812 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4813 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4814 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4815 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4816 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4817 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4820 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4821 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4822 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4823 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4824 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4825 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4827 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4828 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4829 do -d+all out of habit.
4831 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4832 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4835 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4836 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4837 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4838 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4839 record types that Exim uses.
4841 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4842 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4843 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4844 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4845 non-existent file that was broken.
4847 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4848 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4850 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4851 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4852 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4854 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4856 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4857 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4858 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4859 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4860 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4863 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4864 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4865 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4866 at a slight CPU cost.
4868 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4869 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4871 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4874 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4876 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4877 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4883 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4884 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4886 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4888 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4890 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4891 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4893 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4894 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4895 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4896 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4897 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4898 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4901 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4902 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4903 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4904 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4907 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4908 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4909 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4910 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4911 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4912 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4913 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4916 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4917 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4919 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4920 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4921 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4922 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4923 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4924 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4926 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4927 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4928 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4929 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4931 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4934 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4935 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4937 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4938 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4939 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4940 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4943 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4945 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4946 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4948 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4949 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4950 to what was transported.)
4952 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4954 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4955 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4956 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4957 spamd_address settings.
4959 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4960 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4961 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4962 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4963 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4965 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4967 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4968 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4969 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4970 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4971 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4973 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4974 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4976 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4977 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4978 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4979 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4980 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4981 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4982 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4985 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4986 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4987 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4988 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4989 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4990 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4991 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4994 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4996 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4997 driver and ACL definitions.
4999 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5000 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5002 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5003 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5004 understands it better than I do:
5006 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5007 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5009 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5010 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5011 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5012 => three warnings about OTP not working
5013 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5015 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5016 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5017 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5018 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5020 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5021 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5023 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5024 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5025 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5027 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5028 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5031 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5032 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5035 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5036 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5037 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5039 warn !verify = sender
5040 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5042 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5043 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5045 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5047 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5048 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5050 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5051 nomenclature these days.)
5053 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5054 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5056 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5057 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5058 . First host does not offer TLS;
5059 . First host accepts first address;
5060 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5061 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5062 . Second host accepts second address.
5063 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5064 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5067 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5068 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5069 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5070 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5071 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5073 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5074 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5076 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5077 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5079 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5080 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5081 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5083 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5084 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5087 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5089 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5090 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5091 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5092 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5093 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5094 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5095 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5097 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5098 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5099 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5100 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5101 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5103 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5104 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5107 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5108 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5109 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5110 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5111 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5112 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5114 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5116 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5117 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5118 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5119 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5120 printable escape sequences.
5122 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5123 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5126 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5127 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5130 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5131 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5132 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5133 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5134 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5136 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5137 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5138 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5140 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5142 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5143 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5146 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5147 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5148 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5149 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5150 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5151 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5152 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5153 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5154 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5157 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5158 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5159 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5160 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5164 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5165 ----------------------------------------
5167 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5168 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5169 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5170 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5171 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5172 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5175 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5176 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5177 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5178 historical information.
5184 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5186 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5187 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5189 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5190 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5193 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5194 filter fails to execute.
5196 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5197 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5198 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5199 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5200 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5202 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5204 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5205 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5206 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5207 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5209 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5210 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5211 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5212 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5213 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5215 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5217 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5219 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5220 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5221 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5222 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5224 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5225 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5226 sender verification.
5228 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5229 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5231 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5233 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5236 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5237 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5239 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5240 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5242 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5243 information about exactly what failed.
5245 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5247 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5248 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5249 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5251 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5252 It is now set to "smtps".
5254 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5255 ignore_target_hosts.
5257 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5258 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5259 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5260 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5263 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5264 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5265 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5267 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5268 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5269 wake it up if nothing else does.
5271 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5272 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5273 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5276 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5277 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5279 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5281 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5282 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5283 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5284 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5285 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5286 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5287 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5288 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5290 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5291 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5292 than one IP address.
5294 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5295 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5296 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5297 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5299 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5300 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5301 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5302 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5303 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5306 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5307 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5308 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5309 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5311 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5312 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5315 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5316 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5317 $sender_host_address.
5319 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5320 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5321 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5322 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5323 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5326 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5328 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5329 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5331 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5332 just the host names, not the priorities.
5334 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5335 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5336 controlled by a keyword.
5338 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5339 multiple records are returned.
5341 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5342 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5345 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5347 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5348 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5350 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5351 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5352 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5354 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5356 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5358 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5360 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5361 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5362 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5363 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5364 because the tests only now provoked it.
5366 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5367 (this can affect the format of dates).
5369 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5370 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5371 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5372 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5374 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5376 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5377 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5378 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5379 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5381 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5382 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5383 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5385 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5388 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5389 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5390 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5391 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5392 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5393 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5396 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5397 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5398 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5401 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5402 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5403 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5405 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5406 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5407 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5408 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5409 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5410 so I produce this patch..."
5412 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5413 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5416 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5417 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5418 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5419 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5422 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5424 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5425 long debug lines gets shown.
5427 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5428 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5430 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5432 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5433 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5434 of $primary_hostname.
5436 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5437 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5438 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5439 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5440 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5441 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5442 by change 4.50/55 above.
5444 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5445 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5446 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5447 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5448 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5449 running as the user.
5452 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5453 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5454 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5457 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5458 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5460 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5461 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5462 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5463 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5464 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5466 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5467 This has been fixed.
5469 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5470 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5471 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5472 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5475 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5477 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5478 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5479 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5480 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5482 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5483 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5485 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5486 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5487 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5489 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5490 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5491 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5494 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5495 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5496 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5498 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5499 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5500 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5501 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5503 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5504 during host lookups.
5506 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5507 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5509 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5511 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5512 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5513 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5514 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5515 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5518 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5519 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5521 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5522 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5523 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5525 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5527 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5528 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5529 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5530 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5531 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5532 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5535 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5536 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5537 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5538 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5539 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5541 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5544 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5546 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5547 "vacation" handling.
5549 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5550 OS variants using glibc.
5552 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5555 ----------------------------------------------------
5556 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5557 ----------------------------------------------------
5563 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5564 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5567 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5568 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5571 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5572 filter fails to execute.
5574 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5575 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5576 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5577 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5578 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5580 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5581 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5582 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5583 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5585 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5586 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5587 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5588 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5589 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5591 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5593 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5594 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5595 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5596 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5598 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5599 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5600 sender verification.
5602 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5603 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5605 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5606 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5608 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5609 ignore_target_hosts.
5611 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5612 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5613 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5614 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5617 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5618 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5619 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5621 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5622 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5623 wake it up if nothing else does.
5625 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5626 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5627 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5630 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5631 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5633 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5635 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5636 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5639 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5640 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5643 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5644 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5645 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5646 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5647 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5650 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5651 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5654 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5655 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5656 $sender_host_address.
5658 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5660 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5661 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5662 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5664 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5667 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5668 (this can affect the format of dates).
5670 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5671 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5672 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5673 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5675 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5676 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5677 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5679 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5680 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5681 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5682 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5684 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5685 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5686 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5688 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5691 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5692 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5693 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5694 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5695 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5696 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5699 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5700 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5701 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5702 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5705 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5706 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5707 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5708 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5709 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5710 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5711 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5713 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5714 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5715 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5716 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5717 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5718 running as the user.
5721 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5722 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5723 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5726 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5727 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5728 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5729 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5730 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5732 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5733 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5734 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5735 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5738 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5739 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5740 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5741 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5742 because the tests only now provoked it.
5748 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5749 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5750 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5751 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5752 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5753 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5754 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5756 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5757 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5760 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5762 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5764 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5765 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5768 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5769 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5770 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5771 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5772 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5774 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5775 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5777 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5779 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5781 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5784 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5785 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5787 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5788 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5789 affecting debugging statements).
5791 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5793 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5794 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5795 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5796 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5797 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5798 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5799 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5800 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5801 after the received time, and all would be well.
5803 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5804 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5805 condition in an expansion string.
5807 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5809 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5810 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5811 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5812 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5813 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5814 job under whatever limits there are.
5816 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5818 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5821 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5822 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5823 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5824 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5827 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5828 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5829 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5830 binary data in such strings.
5832 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5834 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5835 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5836 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5837 failure, which is pointless.
5839 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5841 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5843 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5844 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5845 Sender: header lines.
5847 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5848 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5849 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5851 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5852 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5853 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5854 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5855 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5858 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5859 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5860 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5861 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5862 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5864 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5865 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5866 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5869 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5870 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5872 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5873 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5875 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5877 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5879 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5881 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5884 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5886 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5888 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5889 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5890 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5891 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5893 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5894 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5900 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5901 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5902 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5904 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5905 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5906 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5907 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5908 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5909 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5911 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5912 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5913 verification failure".
5915 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5916 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5917 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5918 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5920 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5921 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5922 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5923 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5924 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5925 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5926 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5927 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5928 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5929 treated as a timeout.
5931 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5932 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5933 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5934 not set for Exim filters).
5936 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5937 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5938 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5940 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5942 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5943 try to make them clearer.
5945 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5946 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5948 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5950 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5952 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5953 only the Cygwin environment.
5955 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5956 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5957 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5958 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5959 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5961 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5962 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5963 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5964 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5965 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5966 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5967 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5969 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5970 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5972 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5974 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5975 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5976 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5978 To: susanne@some.where
5980 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5981 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5982 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5983 of addresses in From: header lines).
5985 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5986 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5987 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5989 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5990 treated as non-personal.
5992 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5993 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5995 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5997 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5999 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6000 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6001 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6003 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6004 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6006 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6007 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6008 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6009 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6010 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6011 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6013 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6014 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6015 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6016 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6017 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6018 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6019 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6020 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6022 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6024 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6025 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6027 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6028 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6029 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6031 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6032 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6034 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6035 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6036 rather than long int.
6038 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6040 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6046 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6047 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6048 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6049 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6050 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6051 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6057 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6058 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6060 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6061 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6062 socklen_t is defined.
6064 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6067 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6070 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6071 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6072 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6073 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6074 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6076 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6077 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6078 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6079 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6081 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6082 of flapping under certain conditions.
6084 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6085 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6086 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6088 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6090 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6092 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6093 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6094 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6095 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6097 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6098 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6099 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6100 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6101 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6102 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6103 preserved with the message after it was received.
6105 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6106 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6107 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6108 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6109 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6110 test suite worked just fine.
6112 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6113 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6114 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6116 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6117 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6120 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6121 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6122 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6123 does not fully solve it.
6125 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6126 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6127 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6128 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6129 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6131 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6132 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6133 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6135 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6136 string, for example:
6138 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6140 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6141 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6142 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6143 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6144 the routers could not see them.
6146 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6147 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6149 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6150 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6153 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6154 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6155 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6156 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6157 that needed quoting.
6159 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6160 was not being matched caselessly.
6162 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6165 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6166 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6167 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6168 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6169 when use_sender is false.
6171 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6173 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6175 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6177 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6178 the configuration file.
6180 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6181 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6183 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6185 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6186 bytes in the message body.
6188 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6189 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6192 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6194 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6196 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6197 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6198 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6199 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6206 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6207 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6209 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6210 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6211 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6212 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6213 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6215 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6216 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6218 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6219 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6220 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6222 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6223 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6224 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6226 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6229 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6230 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6231 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6232 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6233 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6234 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6235 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6241 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6242 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6243 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6244 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6245 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6246 default (and expected) setting.
6248 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6249 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6250 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6251 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6253 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6254 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6256 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6259 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6260 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6261 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6262 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6263 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6264 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6266 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6267 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6268 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6270 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6271 part (NOT match_host).
6273 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6275 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6276 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6277 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6278 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6279 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6280 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6281 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6282 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6283 the same named file.
6285 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6286 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6289 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6290 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6291 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6292 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6295 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6296 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6297 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6299 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6301 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6303 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6305 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6306 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6308 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6309 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6310 before starting the TLS session.
6312 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6314 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6315 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6317 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6318 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6319 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6320 colon in the middle).
6326 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6327 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6328 multiple configurations are in use.
6330 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6331 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6332 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6333 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6334 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6335 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6337 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6338 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6340 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6341 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6342 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6344 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6345 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6348 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6349 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6351 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6353 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6354 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6356 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6364 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6365 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6366 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6367 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6368 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6370 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6373 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6374 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6375 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6376 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6377 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6378 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6380 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6381 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6382 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6383 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6384 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6385 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6386 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6389 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6390 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6391 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6392 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6393 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6395 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6397 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6398 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6399 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6401 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6403 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6404 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6405 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6408 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6409 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6411 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6412 Three changes have been made:
6414 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6415 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6416 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6417 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6418 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6420 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6423 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6424 the modified behaviour.
6430 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6433 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6434 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6436 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6437 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6438 try to track down a specific problem.
6440 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6441 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6442 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6444 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6447 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6448 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6449 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6450 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6451 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6452 some earlier ones do not.
6454 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6456 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6457 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6458 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6459 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6460 address literals are enabled, of course).
6462 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6464 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6465 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6466 by a command such as
6470 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6472 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6474 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6475 remained set. It is now erased.
6477 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6478 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6480 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6481 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6482 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6483 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6484 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6485 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6486 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6487 appropriate error code.
6489 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6490 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6491 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6492 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6493 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6494 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6496 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6497 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6498 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6500 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6501 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6502 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6503 terminate the header.
6505 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6506 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6507 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6509 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6510 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6511 (4.30/29). In particular:
6513 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6516 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6517 to write a maildirsize file.
6519 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6520 the transport, the new value overrides.
6522 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6525 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6526 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6527 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6530 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6531 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6532 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6535 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6536 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6537 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6539 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6540 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6543 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6544 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6545 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6547 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6549 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6551 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6553 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6554 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6557 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6558 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6559 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6560 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6561 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6562 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6563 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6566 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6567 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6568 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6569 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6570 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6573 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6574 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6575 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6576 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6577 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6578 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6579 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6580 cached value only when the same options are set.
6582 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6584 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6585 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6586 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6587 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6588 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6590 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6591 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6592 it is clearly obsolete.
6594 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6597 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6598 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6599 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6602 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6603 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6604 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6605 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6606 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6608 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6609 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6610 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6611 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6613 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6615 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6617 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6618 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6621 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6622 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6623 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6624 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6625 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6626 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6629 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6630 with the -f command-line option.
6632 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6633 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6634 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6635 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6636 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6637 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6639 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6640 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6643 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6644 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6645 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6646 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6647 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6648 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6649 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6650 buffer is too small.
6652 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6653 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6655 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6656 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6657 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6658 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6659 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6660 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6661 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6662 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6663 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6665 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6666 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6667 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6669 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6670 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6673 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6674 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6675 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6676 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6677 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6679 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6680 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6681 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6682 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6685 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6687 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6689 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6690 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6692 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6693 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6694 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6696 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6697 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6698 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6699 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6700 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6702 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6703 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6704 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6705 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6706 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6707 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6708 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6710 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6711 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6712 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6713 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6714 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6715 the test of how many are available.
6717 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6718 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6719 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6720 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6721 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6722 new message is started.
6724 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6725 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6727 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6728 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6730 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6731 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6732 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6735 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6736 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6737 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6738 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6739 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6740 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6741 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6743 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6744 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6745 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6746 interpreted as octal.
6748 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6751 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6752 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6753 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6754 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6755 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6756 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6758 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6759 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6760 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6761 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6763 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6764 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6765 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6766 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6768 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6769 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6772 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6773 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6775 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6777 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6778 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6779 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6780 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6782 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6783 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6784 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6785 supplied", which is not helpful.
6787 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6788 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6789 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6791 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6792 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6793 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6794 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6795 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6796 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6797 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6798 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6800 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6801 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6802 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6803 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6804 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6806 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6807 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6808 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6809 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6810 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6811 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6813 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6814 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6815 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6817 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6819 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6820 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6821 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6824 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6826 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6827 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6828 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6829 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6830 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6831 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6832 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6833 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6835 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6836 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6837 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6838 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6839 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6841 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6844 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6845 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6846 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6847 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6848 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6849 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6850 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6851 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6852 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6858 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6859 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6860 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6862 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6865 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6866 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6867 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6869 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6870 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6871 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6872 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6873 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6874 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6876 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6877 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6878 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6879 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6880 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6881 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6882 the Exim test suite.
6884 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6885 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6886 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6887 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6889 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6890 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6891 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6892 specify it in this variable.
6894 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6895 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6896 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6897 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6899 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6900 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6901 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6902 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6904 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6905 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6906 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6907 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6908 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6910 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6912 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6915 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6916 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6917 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6918 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6919 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6921 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6922 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6924 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6925 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6926 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6927 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6928 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6930 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6931 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6933 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6934 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6935 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6937 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6938 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6940 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6941 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6943 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6944 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6945 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6947 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6948 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6950 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6951 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6952 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6953 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6955 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6957 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6958 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6959 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6960 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6962 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6964 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6965 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6967 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6969 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6970 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6971 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6972 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6973 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6974 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6976 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6978 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6979 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6982 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6984 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6985 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6987 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6988 550 Sender verify failed
6990 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6991 the final line of the response.
6993 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6994 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6995 all other user lookups.
6997 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7000 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7001 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7002 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7003 result into an int without checking.
7005 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7006 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7007 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7009 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7010 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7011 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7012 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7014 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7017 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7018 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7020 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7021 to the empty sender.
7023 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7024 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7025 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7026 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7027 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7028 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7029 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7032 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7033 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7034 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7035 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7038 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7039 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7041 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7044 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7045 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7047 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7049 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7050 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7053 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7054 as soon as it is encountered.
7056 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7058 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7061 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7062 recognizes a tab character.
7064 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7065 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7066 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7067 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7069 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7071 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7074 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7076 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7078 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7079 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7082 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7083 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7084 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7085 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7086 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7088 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7089 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7091 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7092 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7093 list (.included file names were always shown).
7095 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7096 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7097 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7100 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7101 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7103 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7105 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7107 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7109 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7110 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7111 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7112 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7113 failures to open the logs.
7115 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7116 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7117 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7118 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7119 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7120 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7121 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7127 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7128 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7129 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7132 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7133 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7134 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7136 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7137 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7138 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7140 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7141 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7142 causing some misleading effects.
7144 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7145 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7146 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7148 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7149 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7150 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7151 queue-runner function directly.
7157 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7160 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7161 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7162 was always written to the default place.
7164 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7165 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7166 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7168 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7170 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7172 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7173 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7174 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7176 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7177 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7180 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7181 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7182 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7184 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7185 command line option is disabled.
7187 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7188 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7190 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7192 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7194 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7195 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7197 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7199 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7200 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7201 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7202 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7203 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7204 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7206 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7207 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7210 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7211 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7213 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7214 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7216 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7217 received was valid base64.
7219 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7220 name of the variable that was being set.
7222 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7224 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7225 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7226 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7227 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7228 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7229 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7231 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7233 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7234 nor realm was specified.
7236 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7237 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7238 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7239 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7241 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7242 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7243 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7245 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7246 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7247 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7249 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7250 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7251 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7252 some systems use these upper case variants.
7254 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7255 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7256 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7257 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7259 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7261 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7262 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7264 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7265 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7268 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7270 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7271 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7272 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7273 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7275 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7278 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7279 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7280 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7282 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7283 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7285 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7286 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7287 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7288 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7290 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7291 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7292 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7294 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7296 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7297 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7298 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7299 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7302 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7303 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7304 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7306 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7308 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7309 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7311 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7312 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7314 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7315 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7316 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7317 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7318 when emails are that large.
7325 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7326 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7328 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7329 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7330 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7332 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7333 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7334 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7336 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7337 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7338 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7339 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7340 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7342 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7343 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7344 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7345 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7346 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7349 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7350 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7351 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7352 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7353 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7354 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7355 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7356 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7357 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7358 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7359 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7360 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7361 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7362 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7364 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7365 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7368 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7369 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7370 error should be diagnosed.
7372 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7373 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7374 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7375 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7376 appeared instead of "NULL".
7378 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7379 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7380 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7381 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7382 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7383 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7386 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7387 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7388 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7394 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7395 or receiver verification errors.
7397 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7400 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7401 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7402 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7403 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7405 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7406 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7407 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7408 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7409 shouldn't happen again.
7411 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7412 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7413 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7415 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7416 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7418 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7420 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7421 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7423 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7424 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7427 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7428 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7429 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7431 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7432 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7433 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7434 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7436 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7437 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7438 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7439 to define what should happen).
7441 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7442 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7443 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7445 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7447 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7449 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7450 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7452 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7453 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7454 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7455 structure in all cases.
7457 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7458 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7459 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7460 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7462 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7463 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7466 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7467 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7469 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7470 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7472 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7473 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7474 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7476 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7477 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7478 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7480 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7481 the book and for uniformity.
7483 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7485 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7486 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7487 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7488 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7489 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7490 non-existent command as the problem.
7492 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7493 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7494 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7496 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7498 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7499 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7500 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7502 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7503 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7504 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7505 timestamps using strftime().
7507 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7508 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7510 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7511 transport-time rewrites.
7513 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7514 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7515 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7516 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7518 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7519 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7521 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7522 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7523 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7524 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7527 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7528 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7529 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7530 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7531 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7532 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7533 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7535 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7536 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7537 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7538 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7539 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7541 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7542 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7543 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7544 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7545 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7546 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7547 remaining text gets split now.
7549 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7550 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7551 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7552 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7554 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7555 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7556 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7557 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7560 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7561 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7562 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7563 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7564 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7565 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7566 passed through if needed.
7568 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7569 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7570 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7571 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7572 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7573 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7575 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7576 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7577 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7578 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7579 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7581 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7582 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7583 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7584 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7585 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7587 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7588 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7591 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7592 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7593 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7594 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7595 mayhem of various kinds.
7597 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7598 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7599 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7600 the right test for positive values.
7602 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7603 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7604 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7605 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7606 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7607 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7608 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7609 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7610 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7611 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7614 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7617 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7618 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7621 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7622 the existing equality matching.
7624 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7625 dealing with inode numbers.
7627 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7628 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7629 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7631 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7632 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7633 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7634 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7637 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7638 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7639 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7640 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7641 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7642 relay addresses has also been removed.
7644 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7646 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7647 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7648 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7650 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7651 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7652 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7653 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7654 processing applies to CR:
7656 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7657 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7659 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7660 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7661 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7662 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7664 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7665 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7666 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7668 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7669 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7670 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7671 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7672 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7673 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7676 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7679 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7680 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7681 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7682 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7685 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7687 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7689 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7691 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7692 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7693 not considered personal.
7695 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7697 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7699 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7701 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7702 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7703 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7704 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7705 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7706 header lines, and spool format errors.
7708 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7709 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7710 for more flexibility.
7712 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7713 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7714 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7716 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7719 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7720 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7721 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7722 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7723 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7724 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7725 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7726 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7727 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7729 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7730 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7731 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7732 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7733 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7734 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7735 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7737 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7738 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7739 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7741 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7742 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7743 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7744 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7745 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7746 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7747 instead of killing the process with assert().
7749 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7750 than Unicode encoding.
7752 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7753 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7754 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7755 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7757 77. Added process_log_path.
7759 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7760 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7762 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7763 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7765 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7766 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7767 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7769 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7770 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7771 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7772 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7773 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7776 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7777 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7780 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7781 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7782 they will be used during message reception.
7788 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.