Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
Exim version 4.90
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JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
pairs of long lines into single ones.
PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
This permits better logging.
JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
"exiwhat" output.
PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
than 255 are no longer allowed.
JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
client, there is no benefit for these.
GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
is used (3.2.4 +).
PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
.
JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
erroneously found still-pending ones.
JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
signature and again for transmission.
JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
processing options.
JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
connections.
PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
versions.
JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
inaccessible.
JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
banner-time rejection.
JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
callout/hold.
PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
is the name of a transport.
Fixes bug 2140.
HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
during compilation.
JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
some existing file.
JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
initial verify call returned a defer.
JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
if present. Previously it was ignored.
JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
Exim version 4.89
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JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
before acknowledging the chunk.
PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
should.
JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
body hash calculated value.
JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
past that check, despite the cost.
JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
TLS library to consume.
PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
should be warning-free.
JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
general solution here.
PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
already-broken messages in the queue.
JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
Exim version 4.88
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JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
if one fails this test.
This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
in rewrites and routers.
JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
(lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
certificate).
JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
connection after a verify cache hit.
Do not update it with the verify result either.
JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
when routing results in more than one destination address.
JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
when the cutthrough connection is made).
JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
Previously they were not counted.
JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
that needed the lookup.
JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
distinguished as "(=".
JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
compatible.
JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
(has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
be lost.
JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
itself :(
JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
options.
JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
are not in the system include path.
JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
an incoming connection.
HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
to rspamd.
HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
fallback to "prime256v1".
JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
Exim version 4.87
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JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
client dropping the TLS connection.
TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
outgoing I= field.
JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
check on the next write.
HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
Processing the wait- messages could crash the delivery
process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
mime_regex ACL conditions.
JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
to HELO, local diagnostic string.
JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
an authenticate fail is not an error.
HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
gives some more detail about the running daemon.
JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
distinct.
JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
${quote_pgsql:} operator.
JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
they will retry in-clear.
Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
at installation time.
HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
with the $config_file variable.
JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
"pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
list order is no longer honoured.
JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
for DKIM processing.
JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
cached by the daemon.
JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
keys are given for lookup.
JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
server-side so match that on older versions.
JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
initial truncated version.
JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
induced overflows.
JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
stage.
JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
former class.
JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
extraction. Accept either.
Exim version 4.86
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JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
expanded.
JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
it.
JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
(but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
TLS connections
JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
sites use this now.
JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
have a dsn_lasthop option.
JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
if the interface and destination host and port all match.
JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
/defer_ok option.
JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
Patch from Andrew Lewis.
JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
modifiers per server. Patch originally by .
JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
specify a port-range.
JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
timeout value per server.
JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
now have the list separator specified.
JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
option values.
JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
under OpenSSL.
JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
rather than the verbs used.
JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
from 255 to 1024 chars.
JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
(and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
$sender_helo_dnssec variable.
JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
added for tls authenticator.
HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
Exim version 4.85
-----------------
TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
the script parsing/test process like normal.
TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
function when detected.
JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
cause callback expansion.
TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
instead of bool when processing it.
JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
exceeded it.
JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
version 3.3.6 or later.
JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
option is defined.
TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
"tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
matches.
JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
syntax errors.
JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
"H= []" wherever possible.
TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
tarball.
JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
Bug 1561.
JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
output list separator was used.
Exim version 4.84
-----------------
TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
return.
JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
Exim version 4.83
-----------------
TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
a "Bad file descriptor" error.
TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
utilities have not been installed.
JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
not dns_use_dnssec.
JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
user bes-internal on the mailing list.
JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
selectors, in both main and reject logs.
JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
failed delivery.
JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
analysis.
JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
lookup).
TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
Schlichting.
JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
hosts_request_ocsp.
JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
Christian Aistleitner.
JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
support and error reporting did not work properly.
TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
Jasper Wallace.
JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
(can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
CVE-2014-2972
Exim version 4.82
-----------------
PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
by GnuTLS.
PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
$sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
routines.
PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
(Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
using channel bindings instead).
PP/07 Handle "exim -L " to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X
Bugzilla 1117.
TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
function.
PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
"acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
"acl = name arg..."
JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
Bugzilla 884.
JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
CVE-2012-5671
(nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
authenticators.
JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
for control.
PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
data from the Dovecot auth socket.
TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
the retry rules.
So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
address never reaches the final cutoff time.
This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
delivery, as in LMTP.
I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
Resent-From: f
When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
username as equal to the username.
This change corrects that bug.
GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
NULL dereference and crash.
JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
Bugzilla 880.
PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
an empty string is now equivalent.
PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
not performing validation itself.
PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
Bugzilla 321, 823.
TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
other false fix of the same issue.
Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
Bugzilla 1363.
PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
Report from Prashanth Katuri.
PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
Alexander Miroch.
TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
the src/util/ subdirectory.
TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
from multiple comments on this bug.
TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
interaction.
TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
Exim version 4.80.1
-------------------
PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
CVE-2012-5671
This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
Exim version 4.80
-----------------
PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
improved.
NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
`pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
`pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
Patch by Jeremy Harris.
PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
non-compliant senders.
Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
Bug report from Lars Müller (via SUSE),
Patch from Dirk Mueller
PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
in spool file corruption.
PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
"Got SSL error 2".
TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
diagnostics.
Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
resolver implementation change.
PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
This may cause build issues on older platforms.
PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
read-only, out of scope).
Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
Report from Marcin Mirosław.
PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
real issues in debug logging.
PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
assignment on my part. Fixed.
PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
problems.
PP/35 Pull in on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
needs to override this, it can.
PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
Exim version 4.77
-----------------
PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
whitespace trailer
TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
not safe for signals.
The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
exiwhat.
TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
/leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
/strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
(though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
/count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
details in the main documentation.
TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
repository when doing development or release builds.
PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
Bugzilla 97.
PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
Bugzilla 1156.
Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
Bugzilla 1095.
PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
Exim version 4.76
-----------------
PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
Bugzilla 1098.
PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
Fixes bugzilla 1102.
PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
Bugzilla 1104.
TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
Exim version 4.75
-----------------
NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
Bugzilla 1073
TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
(Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
Fixes bug 943.
PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
SQL string expansion failure details.
Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
Patch from Simon Arlott.
PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
extern declarations in function scope.
Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
a kernel bug).
PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
Patch from Mark Zealey.
PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
Patch from Mark Zealey.
PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
Dennis Davis.
PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
Patch by Simon Arlott
TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
Exim version 4.74
-----------------
TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
consequences so log it to the panic log.
TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
arbitrary files.
PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
(Wolfgang Breyha)
PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
Exim version 4.73
-----------------
PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
more caution in buffer sizes.
PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
ignore trailing whitespace.
JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
"exim" to be used
PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
Notification from John Horne.
PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
compatible.
PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
it normally works.
DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
access.
DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
configuration file.
DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
option (effectively making it always true).
DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
files to be used while preserving root privileges.
DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
that rogue child processes cannot use them.
PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
run-time user, instead of root.
PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
arguments.
DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
-C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
Exim version 4.72
-----------------
JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
$data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
typos
JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
(Finput)
NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
Patch from Alain Williams
NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
Patch from Andreas Metzler
NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
Patch from Kirill Miazine
NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
Patch by Simon Arlott
PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
Exim version 4.71
-----------------
TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
Exim version 4.70
-----------------
TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
"spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
Hirsch).
TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
(http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
by Mark Daniel Reidel .
NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
that they are available at delivery time.
TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
incoming_port log selectors.
TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
setting expands to an empty string.
NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
lsearch.
NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
plus update to original patch.
NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
Patch provided by David Brownlee.
NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
Exim version 4.69
-----------------
TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
build errors in sieve.c.
NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
Exim version 4.68
-----------------
PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
(notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
for iplsearch lookups.
This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
previously such lookups could never work.
The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
version.
MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
$primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
local_scan API.
PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
encrypted.
PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
by clients under certain conditions.
PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
"_responses" off the end of the name.
PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
(without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
and InterBase are left for another time.)
PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
(suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
$local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
Exim version 4.67
-----------------
MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
Jan Srzednicki.
PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
issue a MAIL command.
PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
item. This has been fixed.
PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
= and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
= 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
$auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
the server_setid option was incorrect.
PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
(output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
values).
PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
no_callout_flush is set.
PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
fixed.
PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
other ACL rejections are.
PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
with slight modification.
PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
connection.
PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
expansion side effects.
PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
be the same.
MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
$recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
address, for example: MAIL FROM: SIZE=1234. The option settings
were accidentally chopped off.
PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
pipelining has not been advertised.
PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
This has been fixed.
PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
reported on Solaris.
PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
error. Exim's code has been fixed.
PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
cpus.
PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
"Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
criteria to be more general.
PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
host_all_ignored option.
PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
is what is supposed to happen).
PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
uses the Exim user.
PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
users.
PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
(Jez Hancock).
Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
(unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
least in a lot of common cases.
PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
advertised in response to EHLO.
Exim version 4.66
-----------------
PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
(i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
operators. This behaviour has been restored.
(ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
Exim version 4.65
-----------------
TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
versions. (#438)
MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
(performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
rather than extend the field.
Exim version 4.64
-----------------
TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
these files.
TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
hence the _LINUX specificness.
TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
in the field name.
PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
ignores EPIPE as well.
PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
(quoted-printable decoding).
PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
in 4.64-PH/09.
JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
miscellaneous code fixes
PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
rejections.
PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
(a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
function.
(b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
(c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
(d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
(e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
decoding.
PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
-v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
list.
PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
(qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
RSA_EXPORT functionality.
PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
(there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
been verified.
PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
and authorization.)
PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
if any retry times were supplied.
PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
situation, the verify now always succeeds.
PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
before) are ignored.
PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
committing the later change.]
PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
(i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
(ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
hammering the server.
PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
one case where this was not true.
PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
fails.
PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
smtp transport.
PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
same for both kinds of LMTP.
PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q