1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
16 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
34 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
35 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
36 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
39 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
40 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
41 by adding a relase action in that path.
43 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
44 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
45 dynamically-created buffers.
51 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
52 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
53 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
55 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
57 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
58 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
61 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
62 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
63 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
65 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
67 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
69 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
70 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
71 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
73 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
74 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
75 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
77 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
78 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
80 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
81 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
84 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
85 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
86 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
87 should both provide the file and set the option.
88 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
90 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
91 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
93 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
94 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
95 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
96 Authentication-Results: header.
98 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
99 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
100 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
101 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
103 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
104 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
105 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
106 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
107 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
108 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
109 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
111 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
112 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
113 copies while it is still usable.
115 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
116 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
117 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
119 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
120 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
122 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
123 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
124 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
125 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
127 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
128 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
129 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
132 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
133 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
134 - the pipe transport command
135 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
136 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
138 - paths used by single-key lookups
139 Previously this was permitted.
141 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
142 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
143 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
144 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
146 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
147 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
148 support larger malloc requests.
150 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
151 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
152 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
153 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
155 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
156 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
157 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
158 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
161 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
162 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
163 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
164 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
165 data being length-specified.
167 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
168 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
169 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
170 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
172 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
173 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
174 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
175 not being properly tracked.
177 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
178 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
179 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
180 minute could be seen.
182 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
183 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
184 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
186 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
187 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
189 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
190 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
193 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
195 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
196 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
198 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
199 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
200 filesystem as sufficient validation.
202 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
203 argument is supplied.
205 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
206 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
207 access under Exim's current working directory.
209 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
210 Previously no event was raised.
212 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
213 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
214 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
217 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
218 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
219 the size of the signature hash.
221 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
222 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
224 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
225 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
226 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
227 dropped between messages.
229 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
230 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
231 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
232 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
234 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
235 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
236 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
237 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
238 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
239 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
240 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
241 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
242 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
244 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
245 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
246 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
248 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
249 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
256 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
257 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
259 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
260 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
263 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
266 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
268 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
270 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
271 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
273 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
274 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
275 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
276 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
277 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
278 suitably configured).
280 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
281 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
283 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
284 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
287 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
288 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
290 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
291 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
292 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
293 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
296 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
297 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
298 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
300 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
303 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
304 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
306 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
307 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
308 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
309 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
312 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
313 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
314 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
315 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
318 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
319 shared (NFS) environment.
321 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
322 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
325 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
326 on some platforms for bit 31.
328 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
329 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
330 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
331 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
332 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
333 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
334 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
335 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
337 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
339 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
340 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
342 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
343 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
346 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
347 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
350 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
351 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
352 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
355 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
356 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
357 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
359 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
360 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
361 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
362 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
363 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
365 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
368 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
369 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
370 be requested on all coneections.
372 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
373 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
375 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
377 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
378 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
379 one for these; the option was ignored.
381 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
382 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
383 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
384 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
386 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
387 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
388 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
391 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
392 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
393 error ignored was made.
395 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
397 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
398 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
399 values, to catch one form of exploit.
401 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
402 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
403 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
405 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
406 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
409 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
410 them in our smtp response.
412 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
413 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
414 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
415 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
416 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
418 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
419 link count into consideration.
421 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
422 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
424 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
425 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
426 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
429 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
431 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
433 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
435 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
436 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
437 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
438 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
440 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
442 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
443 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
446 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
447 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
448 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
450 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
451 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
452 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
454 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
455 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
456 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
457 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
458 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
459 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
460 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
461 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
463 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
464 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
465 resulted in an indefinite loop.
467 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
468 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
469 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
475 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
476 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
478 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
479 non-signal-safe functions being used.
481 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
482 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
483 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
485 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
486 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
487 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
489 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
490 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
491 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
492 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
493 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
496 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
497 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
499 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
500 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
501 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
502 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
503 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
504 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
505 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
507 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
508 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
510 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
513 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
514 Previously this would segfault.
516 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
519 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
520 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
521 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
522 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
523 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
524 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
526 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
528 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
529 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
530 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
531 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
533 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
535 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
536 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
537 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
538 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
540 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
542 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
544 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
545 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
546 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
548 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
549 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
550 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
552 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
554 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
555 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
556 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
557 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
559 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
560 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
561 promised '?' replacement.
563 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
565 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
566 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
567 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
568 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
569 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
571 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
572 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
573 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
575 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
576 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
577 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
579 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
580 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
581 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
583 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
584 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
585 hope that is portable enough.
587 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
588 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
589 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
590 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
592 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
593 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
594 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
596 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
597 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
598 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
599 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
601 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
602 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
604 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
605 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
606 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
607 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
609 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
610 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
611 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
613 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
614 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
615 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
616 the previous G, M, k.
618 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
619 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
622 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
623 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
624 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
625 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
627 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
628 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
630 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
631 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
632 off past the nul-terimation.
634 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
635 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
636 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
637 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
638 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
640 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
642 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
643 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
644 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
647 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
648 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
650 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
651 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
652 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
654 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
655 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
656 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
658 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
659 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
665 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
666 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
667 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
668 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
669 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
670 be defined in redis_servers.
672 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
673 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
675 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
676 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
677 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
678 extant use locations.
680 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
681 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
683 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
684 Previously only the last row was returned.
686 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
687 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
688 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
689 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
692 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
693 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
694 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
695 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
696 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
697 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
698 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
699 Main pool for expansions.
700 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
701 active in the testsuite.
702 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
704 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
705 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
706 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
707 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
710 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
711 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
714 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
715 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
716 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
718 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
719 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
720 ClamAV interface method is removed.
722 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
723 rows affected is given instead).
725 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
726 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
728 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
729 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
730 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
731 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
732 for all multi-message initiating connections.
734 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
735 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
736 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
738 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
739 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
740 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
741 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
744 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
745 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
746 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
749 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
751 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
752 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
754 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
755 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
756 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
758 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
759 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
760 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
763 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
764 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
766 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
767 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
768 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
770 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
771 for the build is renamed.
773 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
774 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
775 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
777 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
778 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
779 result replacing the original.
781 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
782 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
783 and the resources needed to be freed.
785 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
787 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
790 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
791 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
792 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
793 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
795 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
796 length value. Previously this would segfault.
798 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
799 newer versions of the scanner.
801 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
802 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
803 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
804 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
805 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
806 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
807 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
809 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
810 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
811 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
812 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
813 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
814 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
815 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
816 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
817 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
818 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
820 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
821 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
823 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
825 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
826 allows proper process termination in container environments.
828 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
829 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
831 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
832 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
833 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
835 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
836 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
837 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
838 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
840 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
841 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
844 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
845 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
847 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
848 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
849 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
850 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
851 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
853 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
854 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
857 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
858 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
860 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
863 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
864 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
865 "bare" representation.
867 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
868 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
869 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
870 corrupted the output.
876 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
877 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
878 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
879 pairs of long lines into single ones.
881 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
882 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
884 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
885 This permits better logging.
887 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
888 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
889 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
890 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
891 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
892 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
894 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
895 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
898 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
899 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
900 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
902 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
903 than 255 are no longer allowed.
905 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
906 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
907 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
908 client, there is no benefit for these.
909 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
910 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
911 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
914 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
915 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
917 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
918 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
919 erroneously found still-pending ones.
921 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
922 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
924 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
925 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
926 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
927 signature and again for transmission.
929 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
930 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
931 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
933 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
934 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
935 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
936 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
937 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
938 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
939 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
941 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
942 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
943 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
944 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
946 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
947 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
948 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
949 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
950 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
951 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
954 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
955 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
956 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
957 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
960 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
961 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
962 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
963 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
966 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
967 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
970 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
971 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
972 banner-time rejection.
974 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
977 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
978 is the name of a transport.
981 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
983 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
984 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
986 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
987 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
988 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
991 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
992 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
993 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
994 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
996 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
997 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
998 initial verify call returned a defer.
1000 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1001 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1003 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1004 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1006 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1007 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1009 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1010 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1012 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1013 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1016 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1017 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1019 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1020 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1021 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1023 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1024 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1025 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1026 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1028 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1029 and confused the parent.
1031 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1032 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1034 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1037 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1038 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1039 out-of-order delivery.
1041 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1042 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1043 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1046 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1047 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1050 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1051 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1052 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1054 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1055 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1056 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1057 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1058 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1059 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1061 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1062 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1063 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1065 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1066 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1067 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1069 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1070 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1071 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1072 though a different problem.
1078 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1079 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1081 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1083 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1084 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1086 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1087 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1089 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1090 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1091 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1092 before acknowledging the chunk.
1094 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1095 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1096 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1098 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1099 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1100 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1103 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1104 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1105 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1107 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1108 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1110 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1111 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1112 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1113 body hash calculated value.
1115 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1116 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1117 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1119 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1121 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1122 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1124 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1125 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1126 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1128 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1129 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1130 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1131 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1132 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1133 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1135 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1136 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1137 past that check, despite the cost.
1139 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1140 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1141 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1143 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1144 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1145 TLS library to consume.
1147 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1149 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1151 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1152 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1153 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1154 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1155 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1156 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1157 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1159 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1161 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1163 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1164 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1165 should be warning-free.
1167 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1169 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1170 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1172 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1173 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1174 general solution here.
1176 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1177 already-broken messages in the queue.
1179 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1181 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1187 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1188 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1190 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1191 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1192 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1194 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1195 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1196 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1197 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1198 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1199 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1200 if one fails this test.
1201 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1202 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1204 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1205 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1207 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1208 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1210 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1211 in rewrites and routers.
1213 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1214 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1216 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1217 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1219 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1221 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1224 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1225 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1226 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1227 connection after a verify cache hit.
1228 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1230 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1231 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1233 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1234 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1235 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1236 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1237 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1239 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1240 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1242 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1243 Previously they were not counted.
1245 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1246 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1247 that needed the lookup.
1249 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1250 distinguished as "(=".
1252 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1253 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1255 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1257 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1258 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1260 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1261 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1263 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1264 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1267 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1268 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1269 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1270 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1272 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1274 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1275 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1276 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1278 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1279 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1280 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1283 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1284 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1285 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1288 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1289 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1290 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1292 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1293 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1296 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1298 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1299 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1301 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1302 are not in the system include path.
1304 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1305 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1306 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1307 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1309 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1310 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1311 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1313 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1315 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1316 an incoming connection.
1318 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1321 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1322 fallback to "prime256v1".
1324 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1325 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1331 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1332 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1333 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1334 client dropping the TLS connection.
1336 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1337 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1339 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1340 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1341 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1342 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1345 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1346 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1347 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1348 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1349 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1350 check on the next write.
1352 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1353 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1354 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1355 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1356 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1358 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1359 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1361 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1362 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1363 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1365 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1366 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1367 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1368 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1370 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1371 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1373 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1374 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1376 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1377 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1378 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1381 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1383 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1385 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1387 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1388 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1390 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1391 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1393 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1395 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1396 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1398 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1400 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1401 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1403 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1405 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1406 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1407 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1408 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1409 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1410 they will retry in-clear.
1411 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1412 at installation time.
1414 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1415 with the $config_file variable.
1417 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1418 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1419 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1420 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1421 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1423 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1424 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1425 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1426 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1427 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1429 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1431 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1432 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1433 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1434 list order is no longer honoured.
1436 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1437 for DKIM processing.
1439 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1440 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1442 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1443 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1444 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1445 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1447 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1448 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1450 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1451 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1453 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1454 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1456 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1458 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1459 cached by the daemon.
1461 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1462 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1464 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1465 keys are given for lookup.
1467 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1468 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1469 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1470 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1472 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1473 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1474 server-side so match that on older versions.
1476 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1477 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1478 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1480 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1481 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1483 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1484 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1485 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1486 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1487 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1488 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1489 initial truncated version.
1491 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1493 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1495 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1496 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1498 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1500 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1502 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1503 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1506 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1507 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1510 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1511 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1513 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1514 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1517 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1518 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1519 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1521 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1522 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1523 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1524 extraction. Accept either.
1530 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1533 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1535 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1538 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1539 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1540 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1541 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1543 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1544 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1545 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1547 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1548 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1549 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1552 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1555 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1556 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1557 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1558 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1559 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1561 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1562 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1563 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1565 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1567 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1568 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1570 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1571 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1573 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1576 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1577 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1579 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1580 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1581 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1583 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1584 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1585 specify a port-range.
1587 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1588 timeout value per server.
1590 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1591 now have the list separator specified.
1593 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1596 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1599 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1601 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1602 rather than the verbs used.
1604 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1605 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1607 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1609 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1610 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1612 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1613 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1615 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1616 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1618 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1620 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1622 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1623 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1624 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1625 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1627 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1629 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1630 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1632 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1633 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1635 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1637 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1639 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1641 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1642 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1644 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1645 added for tls authenticator.
1647 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1653 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1654 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1655 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1656 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1657 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1658 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1659 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1661 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1662 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1663 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1664 function when detected.
1666 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1667 cause callback expansion.
1669 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1670 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1671 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1672 instead of bool when processing it.
1674 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1675 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1677 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1679 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1681 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1683 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1684 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1686 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1687 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1688 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1689 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1690 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1691 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1693 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1694 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1697 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1698 version 3.3.6 or later.
1700 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1701 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1702 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1703 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1704 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1705 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1708 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1709 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1711 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1712 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1713 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1716 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1717 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1718 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1720 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1721 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1723 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1724 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1727 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1729 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1730 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1732 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1733 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1736 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1738 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1741 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1742 output list separator was used.
1747 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1748 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1751 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1752 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1754 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1756 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1757 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1763 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1765 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1766 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1767 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1768 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1769 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1770 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1772 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1773 utilities have not been installed.
1775 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1776 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1778 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1779 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1781 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1782 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1783 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1784 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1786 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1788 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1789 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1791 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1794 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1796 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1797 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1798 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1800 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1801 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1802 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1803 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1804 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1805 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1807 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1809 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1810 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1812 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1815 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1817 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1819 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1820 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1822 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1823 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1825 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1827 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1829 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1830 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1832 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1833 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1834 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1836 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1837 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1838 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1841 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1843 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1844 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1847 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1848 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1851 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1852 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1854 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1855 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1857 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1859 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1860 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1861 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1863 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1864 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1866 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1867 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1870 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1871 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1872 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1874 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1876 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1877 Christian Aistleitner.
1879 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1881 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1882 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1884 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1885 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1887 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1888 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1890 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1891 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1893 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1894 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1896 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1897 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1898 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1900 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1902 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1903 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1906 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1908 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1909 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1916 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1918 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1919 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1921 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1924 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1925 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1928 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1930 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1931 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1932 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1933 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1934 using channel bindings instead).
1936 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1937 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1938 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1939 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1940 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1943 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1945 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1947 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1948 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1950 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1951 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1952 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1954 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1956 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1958 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1959 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1961 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1963 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1965 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1967 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1968 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1970 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1972 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1973 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1976 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1977 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1979 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1980 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1983 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1985 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1987 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1988 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1990 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1993 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1994 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1996 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1997 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1999 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2001 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2003 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2006 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2009 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2011 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2012 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2013 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2014 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2016 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2018 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2019 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2020 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2021 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2024 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2025 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2026 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2028 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2029 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2030 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2031 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2033 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2034 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2035 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2036 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2037 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2038 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2039 delivery, as in LMTP.
2041 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2042 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2044 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2046 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2050 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2051 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2052 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2053 username as equal to the username.
2055 This change corrects that bug.
2057 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2058 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2059 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2061 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2063 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2064 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2065 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2066 NULL dereference and crash.
2068 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2070 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2071 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2072 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2074 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2076 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2077 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2078 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2079 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2080 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2081 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2082 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2083 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2084 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2085 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2086 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2088 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2089 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2091 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2092 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2095 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2096 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2097 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2098 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2099 an empty string is now equivalent.
2101 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2102 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2103 not performing validation itself.
2105 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2106 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2108 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2111 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2113 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2114 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2115 other false fix of the same issue.
2116 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2119 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2120 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2122 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2123 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2124 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2126 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2127 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2128 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2130 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2132 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2134 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2135 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2137 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2140 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2141 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2142 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2143 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2144 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2146 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2147 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2149 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2150 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2153 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2154 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2155 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2156 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2158 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2160 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2161 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2162 from multiple comments on this bug.
2164 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2166 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2167 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2170 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2171 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2173 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2174 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2180 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2182 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2188 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2189 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2190 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2192 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2194 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2197 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2199 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2201 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2203 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2204 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2206 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2207 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2209 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2210 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2212 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2213 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2214 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2216 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2218 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2219 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2221 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2223 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2225 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2226 non-compliant senders.
2227 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2229 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2230 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2231 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2233 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2234 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2235 in spool file corruption.
2237 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2238 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2239 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2242 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2243 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2244 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2246 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2247 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2249 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2251 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2253 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2255 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2256 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2257 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2259 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2260 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2261 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2262 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2264 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2265 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2267 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2268 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2269 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2270 resolver implementation change.
2272 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2273 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2275 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2277 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2279 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2280 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2282 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2283 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2285 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2286 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2288 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2289 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2290 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2291 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2292 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2294 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2296 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2297 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2298 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2300 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2302 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2303 read-only, out of scope).
2304 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2306 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2307 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2308 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2309 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2311 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2313 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2314 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2315 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2316 real issues in debug logging.
2318 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2319 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2321 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2322 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2323 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2325 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2326 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2327 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2330 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2331 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2333 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2334 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2335 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2336 needs to override this, it can.
2338 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2339 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2340 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2342 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2343 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2344 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2345 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2347 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2353 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2354 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2356 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2358 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2361 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2362 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2364 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2365 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2366 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2368 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2369 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2370 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2371 not safe for signals.
2373 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2374 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2375 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2376 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2379 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2381 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2382 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2383 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2384 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2385 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2387 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2388 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2389 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2390 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2391 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2392 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2394 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2395 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2396 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2397 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2399 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2400 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2401 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2402 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2404 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2405 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2406 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2407 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2408 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2409 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2410 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2411 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2412 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2414 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2415 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2416 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2417 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2419 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2420 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2421 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2422 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2423 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2424 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2425 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2426 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2427 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2428 details in the main documentation.
2430 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2432 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2434 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2435 repository when doing development or release builds.
2437 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2438 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2440 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2441 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2444 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2446 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2447 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2449 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2450 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2452 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2453 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2455 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2456 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2458 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2459 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2461 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2463 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2466 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2467 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2468 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2470 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2472 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2474 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2475 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2481 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2483 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2484 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2486 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2488 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2490 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2493 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2494 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2496 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2497 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2499 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2500 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2502 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2505 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2506 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2508 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2509 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2510 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2511 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2513 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2514 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2520 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2523 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2524 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2525 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2527 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2528 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2530 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2531 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2532 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2534 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2535 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2537 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2538 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2540 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2541 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2543 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2544 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2546 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2547 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2549 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2552 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2553 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2555 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2556 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2558 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2559 SQL string expansion failure details.
2560 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2562 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2563 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2565 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2566 extern declarations in function scope.
2567 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2569 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2570 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2571 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2574 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2575 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2577 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2578 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2580 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2581 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2583 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2584 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2586 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2587 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2590 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2592 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2594 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2595 Patch by Simon Arlott
2597 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2598 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2604 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2605 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2607 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2608 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2610 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2612 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2613 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2614 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2616 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2617 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2618 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2620 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2621 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2622 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2623 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2625 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2626 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2627 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2628 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2630 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2631 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2632 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2635 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2638 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2639 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2640 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2641 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2642 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2648 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2649 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2650 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2652 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2653 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2655 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2657 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2659 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2661 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2663 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2665 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2666 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2667 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2668 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2670 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2671 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2672 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2673 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2674 more caution in buffer sizes.
2676 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2678 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2680 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2682 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2684 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2686 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2688 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2690 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2691 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2692 ignore trailing whitespace.
2694 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2696 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2699 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2700 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2702 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2703 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2704 Notification from John Horne.
2706 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2709 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2710 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2713 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2716 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2717 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2718 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2720 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2721 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2722 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2725 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2726 option (effectively making it always true).
2728 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2729 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2731 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2732 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2734 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2735 run-time user, instead of root.
2737 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2738 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2740 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2741 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2744 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2745 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2746 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2748 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2750 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2756 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2757 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2760 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2761 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2764 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2765 Patch from Alain Williams
2767 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2769 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2770 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2772 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2773 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2775 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2777 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2779 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2780 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2782 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2784 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2786 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2787 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2788 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2790 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2791 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2793 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2794 Patch by Simon Arlott
2796 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2797 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2803 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2805 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2807 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2809 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2811 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2817 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2818 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2820 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2821 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2824 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2825 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2826 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2828 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2829 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2831 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2832 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2833 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2834 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2836 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2837 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2838 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2840 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2842 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2844 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2845 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2847 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2849 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2850 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2851 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2852 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2854 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2855 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2857 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2859 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2861 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2862 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2864 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2865 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2867 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2868 that they are available at delivery time.
2870 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2872 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2873 incoming_port log selectors.
2875 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2876 setting expands to an empty string.
2878 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2879 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2881 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2882 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2884 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2885 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2887 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2888 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2890 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2891 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2893 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2894 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2896 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2898 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2899 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2901 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2902 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2904 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2906 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2907 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2909 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2911 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2913 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2916 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2917 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2919 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2920 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2922 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2923 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2925 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2926 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2928 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2929 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2931 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2932 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2934 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2935 plus update to original patch.
2937 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2939 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2940 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2942 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2944 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2946 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2948 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2950 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2951 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2953 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2954 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2956 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2957 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2959 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2960 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2962 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2964 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2966 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2968 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2974 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2975 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2976 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2978 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2979 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2980 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2981 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2982 build errors in sieve.c.
2984 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2985 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2986 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2988 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2990 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2992 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2994 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3000 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3002 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3003 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3004 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3005 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3006 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3007 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3008 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3009 for iplsearch lookups.
3011 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3012 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3013 previously such lookups could never work.
3015 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3016 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3017 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3019 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3022 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3023 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3024 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3025 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3026 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3027 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3029 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3030 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3032 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3033 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3034 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3035 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3036 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3037 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3039 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3042 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3044 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3045 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3048 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3049 by clients under certain conditions.
3051 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3052 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3054 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3056 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3057 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3059 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3061 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3063 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3065 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3066 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3068 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3070 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3071 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3073 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3075 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3077 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3078 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3079 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3080 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3082 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3083 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3084 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3086 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3087 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3089 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3091 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3093 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3095 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3096 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3097 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3103 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3104 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3107 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3108 issue a MAIL command.
3110 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3112 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3114 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3115 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3116 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3117 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3118 item. This has been fixed.
3120 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3121 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3123 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3124 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3126 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3127 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3128 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3130 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3132 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3133 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3134 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3135 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3136 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3138 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3139 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3140 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3142 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3143 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3144 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3145 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3147 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3149 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3151 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3152 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3153 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3154 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3155 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3157 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3159 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3160 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3161 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3164 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3166 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3168 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3170 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3172 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3174 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3175 no_callout_flush is set.
3177 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3178 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3179 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3182 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3184 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3185 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3186 other ACL rejections are.
3188 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3189 with slight modification.
3191 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3192 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3194 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3195 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3198 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3199 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3201 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3203 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3204 expansion side effects.
3206 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3207 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3208 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3211 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3212 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3213 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3215 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3216 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3217 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3218 were accidentally chopped off.
3220 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3221 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3222 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3223 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3224 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3225 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3226 pipelining has not been advertised.
3228 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3230 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3231 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3232 This has been fixed.
3234 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3235 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3236 reported on Solaris.
3238 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3239 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3240 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3241 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3242 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3243 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3244 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3246 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3249 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3251 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3253 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3254 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3255 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3256 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3257 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3258 criteria to be more general.
3260 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3261 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3262 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3263 host_all_ignored option.
3265 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3266 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3267 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3268 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3269 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3270 is what is supposed to happen).
3272 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3273 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3274 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3275 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3276 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3279 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3280 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3281 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3282 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3283 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3284 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3287 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3289 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3290 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3292 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3293 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3295 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3297 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3299 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3300 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3301 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3302 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3303 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3304 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3305 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3306 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3307 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3308 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3309 least in a lot of common cases.
3311 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3312 advertised in response to EHLO.
3318 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3319 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3321 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3322 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3324 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3325 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3326 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3328 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3329 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3330 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3331 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3332 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3338 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3339 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3342 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3343 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3344 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3346 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3347 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3348 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3349 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3350 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3351 rather than extend the field.
3357 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3358 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3359 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3360 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3363 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3364 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3365 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3367 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3368 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3369 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3371 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3372 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3373 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3376 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3377 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3378 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3379 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3380 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3381 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3382 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3383 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3384 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3385 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3386 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3388 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3391 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3392 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3393 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3394 ignores EPIPE as well.
3396 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3397 (quoted-printable decoding).
3399 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3400 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3402 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3404 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3406 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3408 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3409 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3411 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3414 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3415 miscellaneous code fixes
3417 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3420 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3421 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3422 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3423 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3424 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3425 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3426 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3427 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3429 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3430 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3431 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3432 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3434 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3435 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3436 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3437 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3438 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3439 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3440 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3441 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3442 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3444 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3447 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3448 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3449 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3450 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3451 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3452 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3453 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3454 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3456 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3457 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3460 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3461 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3462 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3463 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3464 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3465 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3466 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3467 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3468 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3469 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3470 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3471 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3472 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3474 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3475 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3476 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3477 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3478 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3479 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3480 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3482 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3483 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3484 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3485 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3486 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3487 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3488 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3489 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3490 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3491 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3493 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3494 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3495 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3496 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3497 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3499 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3500 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3501 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3502 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3503 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3504 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3505 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3507 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3508 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3509 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3510 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3511 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3512 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3515 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3516 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3517 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3520 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3521 if any retry times were supplied.
3523 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3524 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3525 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3527 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3529 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3531 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3532 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3533 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3534 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3535 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3536 before) are ignored.
3538 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3539 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3541 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3542 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3543 committing the later change.]
3545 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3546 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3547 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3548 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3549 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3550 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3551 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3552 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3553 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3555 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3556 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3557 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3558 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3559 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3560 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3561 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3562 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3563 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3565 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3566 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3567 hammering the server.
3569 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3570 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3572 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3574 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3575 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3576 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3578 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3579 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3580 one case where this was not true.
3582 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3583 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3584 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3585 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3588 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3589 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3590 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3591 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3592 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3593 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3594 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3595 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3596 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3599 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3600 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3601 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3602 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3604 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3605 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3607 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3608 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3609 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3611 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3613 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3615 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3617 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3618 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3619 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3620 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3622 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3623 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3625 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3626 be meaningful with "accept".
3628 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3629 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3631 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3632 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3633 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3635 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3636 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3637 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3638 there is data to show.
3639 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3641 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3642 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3643 as well as the number of messages.
3645 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3646 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3647 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3649 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3650 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3651 have a flag are now skipped.
3653 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3654 Added the -emptyok flag.
3656 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3657 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3659 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3660 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3661 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3663 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3666 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3667 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3669 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3671 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3672 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3674 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3676 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3677 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3678 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3679 contravention of the specifications.
3681 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3682 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3683 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3685 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3686 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3687 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3689 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3691 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3692 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3693 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3694 some point in the past.
3696 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3697 transport during callout processing was broken.
3699 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3700 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3702 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3703 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3705 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3706 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3708 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3714 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3715 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3717 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3718 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3719 there is data to show.
3720 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3722 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3723 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3725 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3726 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3728 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3729 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3731 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3732 submissions from trusted users.
3734 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3735 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3737 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3738 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3739 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3740 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3741 there is now a framework to start from.
3743 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3744 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3745 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3747 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3749 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3751 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3753 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3754 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3755 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3757 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3760 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3761 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3762 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3764 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3765 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3766 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3769 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3770 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3771 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3772 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3773 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3775 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3776 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3778 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3780 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3781 operations in malware.c.
3783 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3786 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3787 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3788 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3791 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3792 statements to "add_header".
3794 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3795 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3797 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3798 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3801 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3805 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3806 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3807 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3810 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3811 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3813 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3814 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3816 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3817 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3818 any possible encoding problems.
3820 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3821 but not after initializing Perl.
3823 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3824 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3825 apparently, which is not desirable.
3827 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3830 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3833 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3835 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3836 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3837 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3838 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3840 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3841 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3842 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3844 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3845 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3846 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3849 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3850 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3851 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3852 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3853 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3859 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3860 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3862 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3865 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3866 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3867 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3868 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3869 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3870 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3871 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3872 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3875 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3877 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3878 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3879 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3881 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3882 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3883 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3886 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3887 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3889 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3890 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3891 option (which defaults to 0600).
3893 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3895 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3896 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3897 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3898 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3899 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3900 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3901 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3903 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3909 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3910 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3911 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3912 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3913 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3914 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3917 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3918 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3920 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3922 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3923 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3924 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3925 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3926 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3929 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3930 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3932 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3933 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3934 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3935 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3936 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3938 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3939 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3940 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3941 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3943 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3944 be the same on different OS.
3946 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3949 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3950 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3952 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3955 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3956 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3957 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3958 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3959 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3960 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3963 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3964 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3965 when Exim was called.
3967 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3968 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3970 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3971 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3972 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3973 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3975 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3976 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3977 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3978 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3981 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3982 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3983 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3985 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3986 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3987 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3989 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3992 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3993 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3994 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3995 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3996 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3997 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3998 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3999 values from the SRV records were lost.
4001 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4002 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4003 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4005 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4006 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4007 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4009 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4010 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4011 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4012 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4013 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4014 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4015 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4016 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4017 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4018 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4020 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4021 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4022 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4024 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4025 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4027 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4028 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4029 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4030 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4033 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4034 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4035 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4037 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4038 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4039 PH/23 above applies.
4041 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4042 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4043 (for which there is an explicit test).
4045 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4047 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4048 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4049 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4050 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4051 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4053 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4054 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4055 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4056 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4058 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4059 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4060 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4062 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4064 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4066 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4067 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4068 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4070 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4071 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4072 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4073 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4074 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4076 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4077 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4078 the message gets confusing).
4080 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4081 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4082 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4083 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4085 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4086 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4087 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4088 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4091 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4092 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4093 the different processes.
4095 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4097 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4099 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4100 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4102 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4103 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4105 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4106 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4107 messages matching specified criteria.
4109 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4111 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4112 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4114 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4115 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4116 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4117 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4118 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4119 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4120 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4121 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4122 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4123 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4125 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4126 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4127 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4129 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4131 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4132 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4133 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4134 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4135 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4136 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4137 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4140 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4141 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4143 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4145 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4147 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4149 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4150 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4151 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4152 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4153 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4154 size of the count of files.
4156 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4158 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4161 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4162 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4163 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4164 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4166 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4167 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4168 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4170 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4171 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4172 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4173 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4174 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4176 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4177 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4179 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4180 will now be deprecated.
4182 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4184 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4185 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4186 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4188 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4189 with very large, slow to parse queues
4191 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4193 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4195 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4196 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4197 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4200 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4201 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4202 Sieve code now uses this.
4204 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4205 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4207 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4208 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4210 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4212 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4213 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4214 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4215 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4216 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4218 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4219 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4220 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4221 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4223 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4225 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4227 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4228 is preferred over IPv4.
4230 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4231 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4232 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4233 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4234 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4235 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4236 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4238 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4239 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4240 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4242 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4244 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4245 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4246 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4247 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4248 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4249 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4250 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4251 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4252 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4253 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4254 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4256 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4257 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4258 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4264 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4266 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4267 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4269 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4270 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4271 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4273 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4275 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4278 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4281 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4282 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4283 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4286 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4287 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4289 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4290 inside the third argument.
4292 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4293 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4296 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4297 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4299 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4300 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4302 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4304 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4305 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4308 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4310 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4311 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4312 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4313 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4314 identical. For example:
4316 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4318 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4319 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4320 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4322 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4323 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4324 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4325 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4327 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4328 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4329 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4332 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4334 o fixes some comments
4335 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4336 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4337 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4338 and documents the missing references header update
4342 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4343 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4346 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4347 Electronic Mail") by including:
4349 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4351 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4352 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4353 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4354 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4355 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4357 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4359 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4361 The auto-replied keyword:
4363 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4364 message by an automatic process,
4366 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4368 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4369 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4371 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4372 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4375 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4376 to the default Received: header definition.
4378 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4380 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4381 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4382 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4384 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4385 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4386 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4388 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4389 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4390 and treats the condition as false.
4392 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4394 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4395 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4396 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4397 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4398 not changing the active code.
4400 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4401 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4403 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4404 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4406 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4409 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4410 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4411 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4412 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4413 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4414 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4415 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4416 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4417 the text comparison.
4419 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4420 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4421 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4422 The same fix has been applied.
4428 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4429 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4432 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4433 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4435 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4437 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4438 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4439 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4440 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4441 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4443 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4444 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4445 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4446 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4449 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4457 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4458 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4460 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4462 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4464 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4465 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4466 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4468 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4469 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4470 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4472 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4473 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4476 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4477 ${stat: expansion item.
4479 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4480 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4482 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4483 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4486 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4488 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4491 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4492 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4494 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4496 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4497 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4498 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4499 the end of the subprocess.
4501 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4502 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4503 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4504 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4505 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4507 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4509 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4511 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4512 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4514 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4516 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4518 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4519 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4522 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4524 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4525 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4526 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4528 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4529 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4531 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4532 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4534 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4535 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4537 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4538 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4540 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4541 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4542 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4543 contributed by a Radius user.
4545 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4546 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4548 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4549 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4551 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4554 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4555 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4558 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4559 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4560 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4561 header lines when this was not necessary.
4563 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4565 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4566 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4567 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4570 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4573 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4574 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4575 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4576 return code was incorrect.
4578 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4580 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4582 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4584 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4586 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4587 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4588 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4589 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4590 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4593 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4595 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4596 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4597 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4598 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4599 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4600 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4601 which is clearly wrong.
4603 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4605 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4606 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4607 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4610 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4611 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4613 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4615 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4616 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4618 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4619 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4621 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4622 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4624 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4625 recipients, not senders.
4627 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4628 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4630 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4632 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4634 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4635 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4636 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4637 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4639 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4641 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4642 clock is set back in time.
4644 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4645 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4647 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4648 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4650 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4651 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4654 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4655 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4658 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4661 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4663 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4664 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4665 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4667 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4668 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4669 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4670 helo verification defer as a failure.
4672 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4673 actual error message.
4679 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4681 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4682 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4683 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4684 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4686 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4688 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4689 can still be requested.
4691 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4692 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4693 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4694 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4696 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4697 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4698 circumstances, but probably never did.
4700 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4701 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4702 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4705 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4707 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4708 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4710 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4712 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4714 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4715 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4716 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4717 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4718 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4719 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4721 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4722 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4723 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4724 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4725 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4726 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4728 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4729 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4731 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4732 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4734 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4735 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4737 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4739 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4741 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4743 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4745 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4747 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4749 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4751 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4752 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4753 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4755 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4756 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4757 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4758 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4760 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4761 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4762 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4764 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4765 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4766 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4767 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4769 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4770 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4773 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4774 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4775 should work with maildirs and everything.
4777 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4778 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4780 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4783 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4784 function for BDB 4.3.
4786 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4788 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4789 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4792 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4793 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4794 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4795 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4796 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4797 formatting function string_vformat().
4799 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4800 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4801 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4802 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4803 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4804 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4805 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4806 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4808 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4809 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4812 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4813 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4815 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4816 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4817 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4818 test. It is now used for both.
4820 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4821 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4822 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4823 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4824 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4825 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4827 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4828 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4829 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4832 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4833 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4834 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4836 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4837 experimental DomainKeys support:
4839 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4840 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4841 the control was given.
4843 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4845 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4847 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4849 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4850 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4851 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4854 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4855 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4856 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4857 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4858 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4859 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4862 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4863 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4864 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4865 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4866 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4867 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4869 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4870 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4871 do -d+all out of habit.
4873 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4874 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4877 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4878 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4879 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4880 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4881 record types that Exim uses.
4883 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4884 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4885 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4886 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4887 non-existent file that was broken.
4889 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4890 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4892 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4893 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4894 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4896 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4898 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4899 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4900 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4901 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4902 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4905 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4906 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4907 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4908 at a slight CPU cost.
4910 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4911 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4913 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4916 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4918 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4919 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4925 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4926 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4928 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4930 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4932 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4933 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4935 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4936 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4937 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4938 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4939 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4940 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4943 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4944 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4945 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4946 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4949 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4950 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4951 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4952 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4953 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4954 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4955 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4958 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4959 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4961 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4962 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4963 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4964 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4965 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4966 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4968 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4969 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4970 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4971 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4973 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4976 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4977 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4979 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4980 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4981 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4982 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4985 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4987 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4988 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4990 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4991 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4992 to what was transported.)
4994 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4996 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4997 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4998 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4999 spamd_address settings.
5001 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5002 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5003 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5004 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5005 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5007 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5009 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5010 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5011 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5012 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5013 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5015 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5016 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5018 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5019 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5020 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5021 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5022 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5023 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5024 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5027 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5028 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5029 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5030 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5031 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5032 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5033 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5036 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5038 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5039 driver and ACL definitions.
5041 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5042 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5044 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5045 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5046 understands it better than I do:
5048 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5049 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5051 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5052 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5053 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5054 => three warnings about OTP not working
5055 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5057 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5058 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5059 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5060 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5062 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5063 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5065 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5066 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5067 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5069 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5070 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5073 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5074 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5077 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5078 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5079 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5081 warn !verify = sender
5082 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5084 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5085 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5087 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5089 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5090 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5092 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5093 nomenclature these days.)
5095 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5096 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5098 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5099 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5100 . First host does not offer TLS;
5101 . First host accepts first address;
5102 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5103 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5104 . Second host accepts second address.
5105 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5106 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5109 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5110 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5111 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5112 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5113 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5115 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5116 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5118 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5119 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5121 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5122 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5123 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5125 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5126 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5129 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5131 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5132 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5133 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5134 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5135 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5136 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5137 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5139 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5140 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5141 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5142 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5143 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5145 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5146 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5149 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5150 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5151 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5152 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5153 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5154 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5156 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5158 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5159 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5160 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5161 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5162 printable escape sequences.
5164 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5165 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5168 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5169 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5172 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5173 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5174 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5175 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5176 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5178 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5179 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5180 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5182 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5184 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5185 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5188 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5189 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5190 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5191 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5192 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5193 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5194 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5195 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5196 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5199 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5200 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5201 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5202 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5206 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5207 ----------------------------------------
5209 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5210 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5211 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5212 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5213 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5214 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5217 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5218 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5219 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5220 historical information.
5226 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5228 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5229 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5231 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5232 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5235 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5236 filter fails to execute.
5238 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5239 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5240 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5241 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5242 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5244 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5246 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5247 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5248 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5249 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5251 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5252 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5253 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5254 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5255 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5257 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5259 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5261 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5262 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5263 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5264 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5266 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5267 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5268 sender verification.
5270 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5271 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5273 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5275 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5278 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5279 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5281 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5282 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5284 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5285 information about exactly what failed.
5287 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5289 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5290 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5291 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5293 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5294 It is now set to "smtps".
5296 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5297 ignore_target_hosts.
5299 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5300 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5301 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5302 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5305 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5306 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5307 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5309 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5310 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5311 wake it up if nothing else does.
5313 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5314 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5315 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5318 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5319 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5321 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5323 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5324 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5325 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5326 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5327 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5328 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5329 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5330 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5332 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5333 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5334 than one IP address.
5336 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5337 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5338 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5339 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5341 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5342 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5343 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5344 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5345 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5348 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5349 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5350 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5351 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5353 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5354 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5357 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5358 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5359 $sender_host_address.
5361 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5362 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5363 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5364 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5365 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5368 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5370 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5371 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5373 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5374 just the host names, not the priorities.
5376 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5377 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5378 controlled by a keyword.
5380 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5381 multiple records are returned.
5383 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5384 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5387 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5389 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5390 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5392 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5393 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5394 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5396 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5398 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5400 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5402 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5403 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5404 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5405 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5406 because the tests only now provoked it.
5408 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5409 (this can affect the format of dates).
5411 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5412 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5413 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5414 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5416 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5418 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5419 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5420 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5421 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5423 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5424 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5425 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5427 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5430 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5431 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5432 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5433 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5434 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5435 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5438 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5439 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5440 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5443 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5444 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5445 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5447 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5448 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5449 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5450 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5451 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5452 so I produce this patch..."
5454 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5455 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5458 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5459 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5460 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5461 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5464 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5466 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5467 long debug lines gets shown.
5469 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5470 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5472 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5474 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5475 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5476 of $primary_hostname.
5478 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5479 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5480 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5481 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5482 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5483 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5484 by change 4.50/55 above.
5486 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5487 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5488 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5489 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5490 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5491 running as the user.
5494 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5495 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5496 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5499 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5500 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5502 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5503 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5504 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5505 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5506 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5508 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5509 This has been fixed.
5511 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5512 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5513 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5514 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5517 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5519 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5520 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5521 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5522 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5524 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5525 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5527 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5528 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5529 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5531 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5532 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5533 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5536 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5537 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5538 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5540 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5541 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5542 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5543 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5545 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5546 during host lookups.
5548 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5549 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5551 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5553 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5554 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5555 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5556 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5557 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5560 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5561 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5563 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5564 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5565 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5567 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5569 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5570 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5571 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5572 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5573 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5574 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5577 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5578 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5579 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5580 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5581 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5583 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5586 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5588 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5589 "vacation" handling.
5591 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5592 OS variants using glibc.
5594 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5597 ----------------------------------------------------
5598 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5599 ----------------------------------------------------
5605 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5606 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5609 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5610 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5613 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5614 filter fails to execute.
5616 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5617 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5618 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5619 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5620 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5622 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5623 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5624 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5625 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5627 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5628 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5629 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5630 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5631 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5633 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5635 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5636 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5637 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5638 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5640 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5641 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5642 sender verification.
5644 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5645 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5647 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5648 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5650 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5651 ignore_target_hosts.
5653 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5654 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5655 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5656 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5659 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5660 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5661 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5663 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5664 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5665 wake it up if nothing else does.
5667 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5668 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5669 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5672 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5673 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5675 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5677 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5678 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5681 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5682 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5685 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5686 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5687 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5688 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5689 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5692 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5693 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5696 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5697 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5698 $sender_host_address.
5700 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5702 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5703 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5704 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5706 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5709 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5710 (this can affect the format of dates).
5712 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5713 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5714 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5715 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5717 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5718 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5719 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5721 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5722 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5723 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5724 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5726 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5727 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5728 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5730 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5733 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5734 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5735 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5736 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5737 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5738 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5741 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5742 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5743 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5744 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5747 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5748 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5749 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5750 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5751 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5752 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5753 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5755 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5756 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5757 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5758 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5759 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5760 running as the user.
5763 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5764 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5765 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5768 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5769 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5770 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5771 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5772 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5774 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5775 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5776 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5777 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5780 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5781 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5782 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5783 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5784 because the tests only now provoked it.
5790 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5791 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5792 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5793 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5794 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5795 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5796 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5798 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5799 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5802 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5804 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5806 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5807 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5810 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5811 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5812 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5813 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5814 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5816 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5817 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5819 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5821 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5823 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5826 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5827 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5829 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5830 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5831 affecting debugging statements).
5833 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5835 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5836 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5837 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5838 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5839 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5840 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5841 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5842 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5843 after the received time, and all would be well.
5845 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5846 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5847 condition in an expansion string.
5849 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5851 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5852 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5853 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5854 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5855 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5856 job under whatever limits there are.
5858 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5860 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5863 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5864 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5865 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5866 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5869 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5870 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5871 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5872 binary data in such strings.
5874 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5876 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5877 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5878 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5879 failure, which is pointless.
5881 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5883 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5885 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5886 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5887 Sender: header lines.
5889 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5890 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5891 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5893 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5894 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5895 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5896 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5897 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5900 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5901 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5902 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5903 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5904 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5906 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5907 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5908 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5911 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5912 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5914 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5915 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5917 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5919 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5921 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5923 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5926 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5928 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5930 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5931 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5932 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5933 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5935 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5936 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5942 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5943 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5944 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5946 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5947 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5948 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5949 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5950 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5951 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5953 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5954 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5955 verification failure".
5957 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5958 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5959 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5960 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5962 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5963 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5964 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5965 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5966 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5967 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5968 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5969 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5970 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5971 treated as a timeout.
5973 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5974 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5975 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5976 not set for Exim filters).
5978 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5979 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5980 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5982 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5984 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5985 try to make them clearer.
5987 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5988 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5990 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5992 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5994 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5995 only the Cygwin environment.
5997 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5998 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5999 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6000 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6001 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6003 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6004 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6005 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6006 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6007 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6008 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6009 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6011 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6012 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6014 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6016 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6017 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6018 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6020 To: susanne@some.where
6022 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6023 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6024 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6025 of addresses in From: header lines).
6027 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6028 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6029 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6031 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6032 treated as non-personal.
6034 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6035 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6037 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6039 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6041 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6042 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6043 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6045 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6046 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6048 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6049 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6050 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6051 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6052 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6053 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6055 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6056 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6057 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6058 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6059 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6060 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6061 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6062 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6064 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6066 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6067 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6069 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6070 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6071 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6073 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6074 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6076 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6077 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6078 rather than long int.
6080 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6082 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6088 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6089 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6090 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6091 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6092 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6093 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6099 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6100 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6102 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6103 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6104 socklen_t is defined.
6106 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6109 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6112 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6113 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6114 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6115 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6116 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6118 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6119 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6120 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6121 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6123 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6124 of flapping under certain conditions.
6126 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6127 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6128 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6130 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6132 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6134 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6135 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6136 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6137 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6139 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6140 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6141 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6142 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6143 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6144 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6145 preserved with the message after it was received.
6147 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6148 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6149 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6150 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6151 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6152 test suite worked just fine.
6154 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6155 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6156 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6158 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6159 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6162 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6163 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6164 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6165 does not fully solve it.
6167 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6168 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6169 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6170 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6171 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6173 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6174 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6175 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6177 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6178 string, for example:
6180 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6182 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6183 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6184 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6185 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6186 the routers could not see them.
6188 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6189 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6191 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6192 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6195 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6196 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6197 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6198 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6199 that needed quoting.
6201 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6202 was not being matched caselessly.
6204 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6207 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6208 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6209 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6210 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6211 when use_sender is false.
6213 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6215 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6217 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6219 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6220 the configuration file.
6222 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6223 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6225 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6227 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6228 bytes in the message body.
6230 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6231 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6234 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6236 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6238 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6239 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6240 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6241 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6248 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6249 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6251 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6252 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6253 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6254 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6255 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6257 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6258 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6260 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6261 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6262 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6264 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6265 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6266 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6268 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6271 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6272 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6273 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6274 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6275 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6276 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6277 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6283 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6284 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6285 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6286 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6287 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6288 default (and expected) setting.
6290 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6291 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6292 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6293 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6295 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6296 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6298 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6301 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6302 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6303 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6304 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6305 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6306 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6308 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6309 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6310 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6312 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6313 part (NOT match_host).
6315 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6317 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6318 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6319 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6320 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6321 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6322 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6323 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6324 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6325 the same named file.
6327 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6328 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6331 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6332 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6333 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6334 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6337 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6338 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6339 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6341 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6343 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6345 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6347 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6348 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6350 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6351 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6352 before starting the TLS session.
6354 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6356 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6357 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6359 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6360 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6361 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6362 colon in the middle).
6368 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6369 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6370 multiple configurations are in use.
6372 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6373 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6374 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6375 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6376 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6377 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6379 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6380 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6382 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6383 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6384 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6386 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6387 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6390 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6391 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6393 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6395 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6396 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6398 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6406 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6407 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6408 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6409 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6410 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6412 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6415 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6416 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6417 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6418 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6419 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6420 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6422 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6423 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6424 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6425 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6426 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6427 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6428 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6431 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6432 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6433 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6434 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6435 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6437 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6439 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6440 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6441 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6443 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6445 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6446 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6447 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6450 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6451 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6453 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6454 Three changes have been made:
6456 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6457 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6458 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6459 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6460 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6462 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6465 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6466 the modified behaviour.
6472 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6475 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6476 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6478 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6479 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6480 try to track down a specific problem.
6482 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6483 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6484 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6486 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6489 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6490 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6491 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6492 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6493 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6494 some earlier ones do not.
6496 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6498 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6499 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6500 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6501 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6502 address literals are enabled, of course).
6504 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6506 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6507 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6508 by a command such as
6512 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6514 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6516 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6517 remained set. It is now erased.
6519 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6520 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6522 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6523 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6524 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6525 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6526 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6527 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6528 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6529 appropriate error code.
6531 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6532 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6533 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6534 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6535 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6536 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6538 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6539 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6540 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6542 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6543 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6544 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6545 terminate the header.
6547 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6548 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6549 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6551 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6552 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6553 (4.30/29). In particular:
6555 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6558 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6559 to write a maildirsize file.
6561 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6562 the transport, the new value overrides.
6564 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6567 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6568 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6569 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6572 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6573 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6574 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6577 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6578 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6579 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6581 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6582 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6585 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6586 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6587 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6589 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6591 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6593 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6595 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6596 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6599 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6600 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6601 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6602 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6603 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6604 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6605 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6608 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6609 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6610 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6611 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6612 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6615 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6616 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6617 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6618 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6619 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6620 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6621 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6622 cached value only when the same options are set.
6624 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6626 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6627 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6628 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6629 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6630 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6632 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6633 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6634 it is clearly obsolete.
6636 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6639 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6640 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6641 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6644 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6645 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6646 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6647 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6648 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6650 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6651 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6652 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6653 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6655 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6657 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6659 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6660 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6663 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6664 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6665 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6666 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6667 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6668 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6671 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6672 with the -f command-line option.
6674 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6675 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6676 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6677 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6678 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6679 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6681 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6682 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6685 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6686 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6687 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6688 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6689 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6690 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6691 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6692 buffer is too small.
6694 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6695 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6697 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6698 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6699 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6700 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6701 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6702 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6703 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6704 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6705 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6707 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6708 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6709 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6711 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6712 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6715 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6716 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6717 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6718 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6719 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6721 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6722 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6723 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6724 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6727 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6729 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6731 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6732 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6734 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6735 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6736 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6738 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6739 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6740 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6741 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6742 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6744 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6745 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6746 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6747 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6748 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6749 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6750 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6752 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6753 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6754 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6755 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6756 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6757 the test of how many are available.
6759 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6760 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6761 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6762 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6763 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6764 new message is started.
6766 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6767 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6769 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6770 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6772 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6773 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6774 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6777 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6778 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6779 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6780 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6781 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6782 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6783 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6785 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6786 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6787 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6788 interpreted as octal.
6790 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6793 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6794 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6795 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6796 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6797 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6798 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6800 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6801 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6802 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6803 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6805 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6806 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6807 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6808 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6810 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6811 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6814 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6815 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6817 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6819 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6820 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6821 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6822 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6824 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6825 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6826 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6827 supplied", which is not helpful.
6829 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6830 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6831 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6833 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6834 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6835 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6836 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6837 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6838 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6839 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6840 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6842 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6843 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6844 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6845 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6846 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6848 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6849 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6850 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6851 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6852 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6853 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6855 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6856 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6857 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6859 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6861 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6862 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6863 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6866 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6868 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6869 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6870 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6871 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6872 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6873 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6874 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6875 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6877 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6878 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6879 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6880 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6881 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6883 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6886 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6887 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6888 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6889 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6890 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6891 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6892 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6893 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6894 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6900 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6901 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6902 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6904 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6907 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6908 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6909 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6911 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6912 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6913 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6914 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6915 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6916 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6918 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6919 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6920 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6921 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6922 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6923 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6924 the Exim test suite.
6926 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6927 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6928 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6929 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6931 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6932 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6933 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6934 specify it in this variable.
6936 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6937 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6938 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6939 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6941 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6942 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6943 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6944 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6946 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6947 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6948 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6949 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6950 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6952 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6954 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6957 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6958 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6959 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6960 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6961 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6963 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6964 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6966 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6967 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6968 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6969 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6970 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6972 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6973 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6975 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6976 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6977 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6979 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6980 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6982 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6983 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6985 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6986 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6987 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6989 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6990 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6992 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6993 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6994 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6995 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6997 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6999 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7000 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7001 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7002 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7004 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7006 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7007 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7009 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7011 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7012 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7013 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7014 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7015 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7016 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7018 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7020 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7021 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7024 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7026 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7027 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7029 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7030 550 Sender verify failed
7032 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7033 the final line of the response.
7035 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7036 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7037 all other user lookups.
7039 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7042 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7043 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7044 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7045 result into an int without checking.
7047 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7048 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7049 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7051 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7052 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7053 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7054 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7056 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7059 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7060 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7062 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7063 to the empty sender.
7065 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7066 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7067 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7068 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7069 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7070 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7071 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7074 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7075 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7076 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7077 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7080 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7081 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7083 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7086 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7087 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7089 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7091 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7092 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7095 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7096 as soon as it is encountered.
7098 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7100 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7103 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7104 recognizes a tab character.
7106 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7107 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7108 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7109 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7111 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7113 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7116 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7118 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7120 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7121 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7124 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7125 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7126 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7127 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7128 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7130 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7131 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7133 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7134 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7135 list (.included file names were always shown).
7137 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7138 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7139 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7142 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7143 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7145 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7147 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7149 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7151 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7152 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7153 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7154 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7155 failures to open the logs.
7157 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7158 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7159 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7160 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7161 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7162 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7163 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7169 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7170 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7171 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7174 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7175 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7176 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7178 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7179 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7180 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7182 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7183 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7184 causing some misleading effects.
7186 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7187 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7188 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7190 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7191 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7192 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7193 queue-runner function directly.
7199 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7202 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7203 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7204 was always written to the default place.
7206 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7207 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7208 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7210 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7212 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7214 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7215 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7216 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7218 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7219 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7222 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7223 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7224 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7226 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7227 command line option is disabled.
7229 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7230 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7232 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7234 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7236 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7237 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7239 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7241 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7242 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7243 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7244 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7245 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7246 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7248 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7249 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7252 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7253 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7255 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7256 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7258 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7259 received was valid base64.
7261 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7262 name of the variable that was being set.
7264 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7266 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7267 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7268 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7269 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7270 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7271 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7273 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7275 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7276 nor realm was specified.
7278 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7279 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7280 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7281 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7283 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7284 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7285 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7287 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7288 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7289 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7291 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7292 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7293 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7294 some systems use these upper case variants.
7296 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7297 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7298 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7299 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7301 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7303 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7304 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7306 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7307 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7310 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7312 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7313 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7314 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7315 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7317 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7320 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7321 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7322 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7324 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7325 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7327 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7328 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7329 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7330 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7332 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7333 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7334 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7336 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7338 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7339 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7340 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7341 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7344 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7345 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7346 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7348 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7350 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7351 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7353 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7354 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7356 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7357 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7358 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7359 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7360 when emails are that large.
7367 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7368 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7370 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7371 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7372 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7374 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7375 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7376 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7378 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7379 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7380 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7381 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7382 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7384 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7385 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7386 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7387 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7388 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7391 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7392 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7393 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7394 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7395 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7396 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7397 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7398 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7399 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7400 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7401 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7402 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7403 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7404 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7406 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7407 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7410 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7411 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7412 error should be diagnosed.
7414 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7415 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7416 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7417 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7418 appeared instead of "NULL".
7420 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7421 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7422 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7423 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7424 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7425 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7428 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7429 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7430 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7436 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7437 or receiver verification errors.
7439 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7442 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7443 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7444 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7445 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7447 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7448 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7449 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7450 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7451 shouldn't happen again.
7453 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7454 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7455 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7457 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7458 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7460 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7462 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7463 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7465 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7466 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7469 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7470 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7471 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7473 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7474 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7475 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7476 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7478 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7479 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7480 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7481 to define what should happen).
7483 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7484 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7485 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7487 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7489 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7491 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7492 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7494 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7495 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7496 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7497 structure in all cases.
7499 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7500 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7501 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7502 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7504 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7505 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7508 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7509 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7511 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7512 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7514 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7515 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7516 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7518 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7519 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7520 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7522 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7523 the book and for uniformity.
7525 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7527 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7528 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7529 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7530 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7531 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7532 non-existent command as the problem.
7534 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7535 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7536 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7538 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7540 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7541 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7542 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7544 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7545 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7546 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7547 timestamps using strftime().
7549 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7550 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7552 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7553 transport-time rewrites.
7555 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7556 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7557 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7558 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7560 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7561 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7563 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7564 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7565 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7566 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7569 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7570 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7571 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7572 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7573 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7574 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7575 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7577 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7578 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7579 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7580 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7581 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7583 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7584 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7585 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7586 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7587 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7588 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7589 remaining text gets split now.
7591 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7592 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7593 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7594 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7596 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7597 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7598 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7599 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7602 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7603 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7604 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7605 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7606 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7607 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7608 passed through if needed.
7610 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7611 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7612 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7613 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7614 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7615 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7617 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7618 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7619 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7620 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7621 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7623 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7624 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7625 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7626 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7627 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7629 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7630 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7633 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7634 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7635 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7636 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7637 mayhem of various kinds.
7639 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7640 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7641 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7642 the right test for positive values.
7644 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7645 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7646 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7647 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7648 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7649 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7650 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7651 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7652 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7653 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7656 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7659 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7660 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7663 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7664 the existing equality matching.
7666 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7667 dealing with inode numbers.
7669 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7670 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7671 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7673 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7674 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7675 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7676 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7679 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7680 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7681 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7682 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7683 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7684 relay addresses has also been removed.
7686 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7688 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7689 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7690 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7692 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7693 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7694 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7695 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7696 processing applies to CR:
7698 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7699 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7701 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7702 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7703 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7704 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7706 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7707 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7708 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7710 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7711 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7712 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7713 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7714 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7715 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7718 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7721 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7722 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7723 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7724 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7727 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7729 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7731 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7733 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7734 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7735 not considered personal.
7737 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7739 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7741 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7743 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7744 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7745 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7746 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7747 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7748 header lines, and spool format errors.
7750 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7751 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7752 for more flexibility.
7754 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7755 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7756 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7758 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7761 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7762 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7763 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7764 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7765 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7766 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7767 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7768 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7769 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7771 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7772 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7773 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7774 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7775 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7776 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7777 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7779 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7780 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7781 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7783 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7784 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7785 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7786 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7787 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7788 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7789 instead of killing the process with assert().
7791 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7792 than Unicode encoding.
7794 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7795 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7796 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7797 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7799 77. Added process_log_path.
7801 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7802 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7804 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7805 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7807 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7808 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7809 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7811 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7812 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7813 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7814 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7815 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7818 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7819 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7822 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7823 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7824 they will be used during message reception.
7830 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.